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Our only sources of information of cases of measles, in the absence
of notifications, is the local Registrars returns of deaths, and the
information from Head Masters of Board Schools, the latter of course
comprising the larger number of cases.
Prom these two sources we have received information from the
1st April to 1st December, 1903, of 1,623 cases of measles in the
Borough.
Whooping Cough.—There was a decline in the number of deaths
from this cause during the year 1903 compared with the previous
year. The deaths during 1903 numbered 66 but during 1902 they
numbered 87, the death-rate for these years being respectively .29
and .39 per 1,000 living. Of the 66 deaths during last year, 61 were
under 5 years of age. The death-rate for London for the same
period was .35 per 1,000. Notices of the existence of cases of whooping
cough in the homes of children attending the Board Schools of the
Borough were received from Head Masters to the number of 188.
CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.
Tuberculous Disease.—During the year under review there
were 409 deaths from this cause. The following are the heads
under which the deaths were arranged:—
Tuberculous Phthisis 134
Phthisis 122
General Tuberculosis 77
Tuberculous Meningitis 51
,, Peritonitis 6
Tabes Mesenterica 11
Tubercle of other organs
409
The annual death-rate from tuberculous disease in the Borough is
1.8 per 1,000 living, the London mortality for phthisis is 16 per
1,000 living.
Cancer.—There were 192 deaths from this cause in the Borough
during 1903. This gives an annual death-rate of .85 per 1,000.