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Consumption is credited with by far the largest proportion of
this number, viz., 127 deaths, or a death rate of 1.25 per 1,000,
comparing with 1.62, the Consumption death rate for the whole of
London. Amongst the Metropolitan Boroughs the Consumption
death rate ranged from 0'83 in Hampstead, 0.90 in Lewisham,
1.12 in Wandsworth, 1'20 in Paddington, 1.25 in Greenwich, to
2.12 in Stepney and Bermondsey, 2.16 in Bethnal Green, 2.18 in
Shoreditch, 2.36 in Southwark, 2.39 in Finsbury, and 2.86 in
Holborn.
Locally, the deaths were 3 in Kidbrooke, giving a death rate
of 0.9 per 1000; 16 in St. Nicholas, giving a death rate of 1.9;
20 in Charlton, giving a death rate of 1.0; 32 in West Greenwich,
giving a death rate of 1.2; and 56 in East Greenwich, giving a
death rate of 1.2 per 1000.
The remaining forms of Tuberculosis were credited with 42
deaths, 19 being in East Greenwich, 12 in West Greenwich, 5 in
St. Nicholas, and 6 in Charlton. Of these other forms of Tuberculosis,
Tuberculosis of the Brain, or its Membrane, was credited
with 11 deaths; Tubercule affecting the Larynx, 1; Tubercule
affecting the Intestines, 11 (5 being in patients under 5 years);
General Tuberculosis, 10 deaths (7 being in patients under 5 years
of age). Voluntary notifications of cases of Consumption were
received to the number of 123 during the year, which, by comparison
with the number received during the preceding years,
viz., 59 and 51, shews that medical men in the district are more
thoroughly appreciating this arrangement. Fifty-four of these
notifications were respecting patients residing in East Greenwich,
29 in West Greenwich, 29 in St. Nicholas, and 11 in Charlton.
Dietetic Diseases. This class of disease is credited with a
total of 7 deaths, giving a death rate of '07 per 1,000. One death