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It should be stated that several authorities throughout the country are, in
addition to Voluntary Notification, promoting the erection of Sanatoria for
the treatment of Consumption either (1) by building these places themselves,
or (2) by subsidising institutions which have been built or are in the course
of erection.
Thus in Bradford a Sanatorium for the treatment of 42 consumptive
patients, and estimated to cost £10,000, is approaching completion. In
Brighton, the Sanitary Authority maintain seven patients at the cost of
the rates. Bristol has contributed £1,000 towards the cost of a Sanatorium
for the Counties of Gloucester, Somerset and Wiltshire; and also
pays £260 annually towards its maintenance, on condition that four beds are
placed at the disposal of the City Council. The County Borough of Leeds
subscribe £400 a year to a voluntary hospital. In Liverpool the Poor Law
Guardians have erected a hospital; and there, also, a sanatorium has been
erected by voluntary subscriptions in connection with the Consumptive
Hospitals. In Sheffield the Council have passed a resolution that a sum of
£'6,000 per annum be provided out of the rates in support of a Sanatorium
which has been built. In Sunderland the Town Council subscribe £150
per annum for the use of two beds in the Sanatorium at Stanhope; and in
Manchester Mr. W. J. Crossley, J.P., has made a splendid gift of a new
Sanatorium for Consumptives.
Counties are also taking action, for in Cheshire, Cornwall, Devonshire,
Durham, Wiltshire, Somersetshire, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Yorkshire,
(East and West Ridings), Westmoreland and Nottingham, Sanatoria have
been, are about to be erected, or are in the course of erection.
STATISTICAL.
It will be well now to consider the extent of the mortality which is caused
annually by this disease, so that you may form some idea of it. (Vide Tables
attached to this report).
Out of a total of 68,322 deaths from All Causes in Islington in the twelve
years 1892—1903, Consumption was the cause of 6,485, or 9.5 per cent. Of
these deaths 3,857 were of males, and 2,628 of females. The death rate
averaged 1.61 per 1,000 inhabitants. It caused 1,663 more deaths than the
combined deaths from Small Pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, and
Enteric Fever, to prevent which the strongest sanitary measures are adopted.
The deaths, too, from Consumption occurred at the most valuable period
of life, for in the twelve years 1892—1903, 831 were registered between 15 and
25 years of age, 1,401 between 25 and 35, 1,554 between 35 and 45, 1,116
between 45 and 55, and 575 between 55 and 65; whereas nearly all the deaths
from the Zymotic Diseases are registered at the early ages of life.