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1904]
Tubercular Diseases. - Tuberculosis of the Lungs or Phthisis, Tuberculosis
of the Brain, Tuberculosis of the Larynx, Tuberculosis of the Abdomen or Tabes
Mesenterica, and General Tuberculosis.
Phthisis caused 533 deaths, 315 males and 218 females, of whom 501
were over fifteen years of age. 50 of thesedeaths occuired inTufnell Sub-district,
63 in Upper Holloway, 41 in Tollington, 73 in Lower Holloway, 72 in
Highbury, 84 in Barnsbury, and 150 in South-East Islington.
The deaths were equal to a death-rate of 1.56 per 1,000, as compared with
a mean rate for the preceding ten years of 1.61. This rate is higher than the
mean rate of England and Wales, which during the last ten years has been
1.29 per 1,000 of the population.
The deaths from Phthisis were in the proporiion of 10.18 to every 100
deaths from all causes.
It will be noticed that the deaths of males greatly exxeeded those of
females, the death-rate among the former being 1.94 per 1,000 and among the
latter 1.22 per 1,000.
The mortality was greatest in the coldest months of the year, the first and
fourth quarters, when 160 and 154 deaths were respectively registered. In the
second quarter no deaths occurred, and in the third 109. Since 1891 the
death-rate from this disease hdS varied from 1.45 in 19.3 to 1.79 in 1900, while
the mean death-rate has been 1.6i per 1,000.
In the succeeding statement it is seen that the greatest mortality occcnrred
between 25 and 55 years of age.