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July 30th, class-room B. St. Matthias School.
Dec. 30th, whole school, Hague Street.
CHICKEN POX.
One hundred and sixty-six cases of this disease were
reported to us from schools, sixteen of the addresses
given were incorrect.
TUBERCULOSIS.
The various forms of disease caused by the tubercle
bacillus were responsible for 315 deaths, nearly 14
(13.9) per cent. of our total mortality and equal to a
rate of 2.4 per thousand population at all ages.
The deaths from the pulmonary form of the disease
(Phthisis) numbered 215, and are equal to a rate of
1.62 per thousand population in Bethnal Green as
against 1.32 in the whole of London.
The lungs of young children are not so vulnerable,
and the bacillus seems more prone to find lodgment
either in the membranes of the brain or abdomen ;
consequently we find that of the 101 deaths from
other forms of tuberculous disease, seventy-three of
the sufferers were young children, a mortality on the
estimated population under that age of 4.0 per
thousand living. Of the infants under one year,
seventeen had tuberculous meningitis and eight tuberculous
peritonitis and fifteen suffered from other
tuberculous affections, chiefly of bones and joints.
By permission of the Public Health Committee,
facilities are now afforded for the gratuitous examina-