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TUBERCULAR DISEASE.
(Total deaths, 388.)
Two hundred and seventy-five deaths were recorded as due to
phthisis, and 113 to other forms of tubercular disease. The death
rate from tubercular disease forms over 131/2 per cent. of the total
mortality from all causes, and is equal to a rate of 2.3 per thousand
at all ages. The tubercular diseases of young children caused 95
deaths, a mortality on the estimated population of young children of
5.2 per thousand.
PHTHISIS.
(275 deaths.)
The death rate from phthisis alone is equal to 2.1 per thousand
in Bethnal Green, whilst that for the whole of London is 1.7.
RESPIRATORY DEATHS.
(717 deaths.)
The deaths from diseases of the respiratory organs, exclusive of
phthisis, numbered 717, and formed over one quarter of the total
mortality from all causes. This is equal to a rate of 5.5 per
thousand population at all ages. A large proportion (269) of the
respiratory deaths were amongst young children, a mortality of
16.4 per thousand on the estimated population under five.
MALIGNANT DISEASE.
Cancers of various organs and parts of the body caused 103
deaths. This disease rarely affects young people, and all the deaths
from it recorded last year (with the exception of two) were amongst
persons aged at least 25 years. At the census in 1891 there was
found in Bethnal Green 55,058 people aged 25 years and upwards.
Assuming that this number has not varied materially, we show a
cancer mortality of 1.87 on it.
CUSTOMS AND INLAND REVENUE ACTS,
1890 and 1891.
Application was made under these Acts for my certificate with
reference to 339 premises.