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Erysipelas. This disease has occasioned no fatalities during
the year.
Pyæmia and Septicæmia are credited with 2 deaths.
Infective Endocarditis with 4 deaths, and other allied
diseases with 2 deaths, making altogether for this Septic class a
total of 12 deaths, giving a death rate of 0.12 per 1,000.
Malarial. Rheumatic Fever is only credited with one
death ; this, again, is somewhat remarkable in view of the unusual
amounts of rainfall during the period, and would tend to show that
on the whole the subsoil of the district is of a somewhat porous
nature, and that the subsoil is generally fairly well drained.
Tuberculosis. This class of disease has occasioned a total
of 161 deaths, giving a death rate of 1.61 per 1,000. The form of
this disease affecting the lungs, commonly known as Phthisis or
Consumption, has to be credited with 115 of this number, or a rate
of 1.15 per 1,000 for the Borough, comparing with 1.55 per 1,000,
the Consumption death rate for the County of London. Amongst
the Metropolitan Boroughs the death rate from this disease ranged
from 0 74 in Hampstead, 0.84 in Lewisham, 0.95 in Wandsworth,
1.06 in Paddington, and 115 in Greenwich, up to 2.32 in Shoreditch,
2.40 in Southwark, and 3.14 in Holborn.
Locally the variations were 49 deaths in East Greenwich,
giving a death rate of 1 07; 32 in West Greenwich, giving a death
rate of 1*31 ; 13 in St. Nicholas, giving a death rate of 1.72; 20
in Charlton, giving a death rate of 104; and 1 death in Kidbrooke,
giving 0.31 per 1,000. Of the 46 deaths from other forms of
Tuberculosis, 24, or the greater proportion of them, were in East
Greenwich, 12 in West Greenwich, 5 in St. Nicholas, and 5 in