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The deaths registered during the past six years as arising from
Tubercular causes were as follows:—
1891 139
1892 112
1893 121
1894 126
1895 119
1896 124
I have in previous reports drawn marked attention to the mortality
from Tubercular diseases in the district, and indicated its grave importance
; and I now append a spot map which shows graphically the
distribution of the disease throughout the district.
As I have before remarked, there is no doubt that in most, if not
all, of the older houses of the district, there is no provision to prevent
dampness: and especially is this the case with the houses in North
Woolwich; and to this defect I attribute much of the evil.
The Sanitary Authority must continue to insist upon all proper
means being adopted to remedy this, fraught as it obviously is with
the most serious injury to health.
Sex Mortality. Of the total deaths in the Arsenal Registration Sub-
District, there were 264 males and 223 females; in the
Dockyard Registration Sub-District 211 males and 181 females; or,
in other words, of the 879 total deaths in the whole district 475 were
of males and 404 of females; 174 deaths were of persons over 60 years
of age.
Births and Births Rate The number of births registered during the year was
1,283. Of these 18 were recorded as illegitimate. The
birth rate is, therefore, 30.5 per thousand, that for the Dockyard being
27.8 per thousand, and for 'the Arsenal 32.9.
For the past six years the birth rate has been as follows:—