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Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
the parish, 24, so that the corrected total was 97. Of
these 97, 61 died from phthisis pulmonalis, compared
with 78 in 1895 and 75 in 1894.
The total death-rate from tubercular diseases for
the year was 1.73 per 1,000, compared with 2.09 in
1895, and 2.43 in England and Wales during the decennium
1881-90.
From phthisis pulmonalis alone the death-rate was
1.09 per 1,000 compared with 1.35 in 1895, and 1.73 in
England and Wales during the decennium 1881-90.
Other tubercular diseases (including tabes mesenterica
and tubercular meningitis) were the cause of 36
deaths, a decrease of 16 compared with 1895. Of these
36 deaths 14 were of infants under one year, and 14 of
children from one to five years.
Other constitutional diseases, as gout, rheumatism
and cancer, were the cause of 67 deaths. Nine deaths
from these diseases occurred in internal and 27 in external
institutions, making a corrected total of 85.
Cancer alone was the cause of 57 of these deaths, a
large increase compared with 1895, when only 26 deaths
occurred. Of these 57 deaths, 26 were of males and 31
of females.
Diseases of the organs of respiration were the cause
of 122 deaths, 18 fewer than last year, and 63 below the
corrected decennial average.
Eight deaths from these diseases occurred in the
Middlesex Lunatic Asylum, 1 in the Hospital for Incurables,
1 in St. Peter's Hospital, 1 in the Prison, and
1 in the Workhouse, a total of 12. 29 deaths also occurred
in external institutions, making a corrected total
of 139, while in 1895 the corrected total was 156.