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The remaining forms of Tuberculosis were credited with 50
deaths, 18 being in East Greenwich, 12 in West Greenwich, 12
in St. Nicholas, 7 in Charlton and 1 in Kidbrooke. of these
other forms of Tuberculosis, Tuberculosis of the Brain, or its
Membrane, was credited with 25 deaths; Tubercle affecting the
intestines, 8 (4 being in patients under five years); General
Tuberculosis, 10 deaths (3 being in patients under five years of
age); and the other forms of Tuberculosis, 7 deaths.
Voluntary notifications of cases of Consumption were
received to the number of 109 during the year, which, by comparison
with the number received during the preceding years,
namely, 123, 59 and 51, shows that medical men in the District
are still appreciating this arrangement. Forty-four of these
notifications were respecting patients residing in East Greenwich,
37 in West Greenwich, 20 in St. Nicholas, and 8 in Charlton.
Dietic Diseases. This class of disease is credited with a
total of 7 deaths, giving a rate of 0·07 per 1,000. These deaths
were all due to Alcoholism, acute or chronic.
Constitutional Diseases. These are credited with 120
deaths, giving a death rate of 1.16 per 1,000. One was attributed
to Gout, 16 to Diabetes, 6 to Anæmia of various forms, and 91
to Cancer. The deaths from Cancer were distributed as follows:
34 in East Greenwich, 27 in West Greenwich, 6 in St. Nicholas,
19 in Charlton, and 5 in Kidbrooke.
The enquiries which have been carried out during the past
few years with a view to, if possible, determining any apparently
predisposing cause, have been discontinued, as up to the present
no sufficient good appears to have resulted from the enquiry to