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Septic. Erysipelas. This was the cause of 5 deaths
during the year, 2 being in patients under five years of age.
Puerperal Fever. Puerperal Fever was the cause of 4
deaths during the year, compared with only 1 in 1904. Some
reference to these deaths will be found in connection with the
remarks on notifications of this disease.
Pyæmia and Septicæmia. Caused 2 deaths.
Infective Endocarditis. Is credited with 1 death.
Malarial. Rheumatic Fever. This disease is credited
with 3 deaths during the year, while Rheumatism of the Heart
caused 2 deaths.
Tuberculosis. This class of disease has occasioned 185
deaths during the year, with a death rate of 1·79 per 1,000,
comparing with 169 deaths and a death rate of 1·67 per 1,000
during the previous year.
Consumption is credited with by far the largest proportion
of this number, viz., 135 deaths, or a death rate of 1·31 per
1,000, comparing with 1·42 the Consumption death rate for the
whole of London. Amongst the Metropolitan Boroughs the
Consumption death rate ranged from 0·83 in Hampstead, 0·85 in
Lewisham, 0·96 in Paddington, 1·02 in Wandsworth, and 1·14 in
Kensington, to 1·79 in Bermondsey, 1·96 in Shoreditch, 2·02 in
Finsbury, 2·04 in Bethnal Green, 2·13 in Southwark, and 2·84 in
Holborn.
Locally, the deaths were 3 in Kidbrooke, giving a death rate
of 0·91 per 1,000; 14 in St. Nicholas, giving a death rate of 1·77;
27 in Charlton, giving a death rate of 1·39; 39 in West Greenwich,
giving a death rate of 1·54; and 52 in East Greenwich,
giving a death rate of 1·10 per 1,000.