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Deaths from Phthisis.—The total deaths due to consumption
in 1907 were 243, as compared with 232 in 1906, and
215 in 1905. The death rate for the year is therefore 2.5 per
1,000 (the London rate being 1.4), which is about the average
rate for the last five years :—
Under
1
1 and
under 5
5 and
under 15
15 and
under 25
25 and
under 65
65 and
over
Total
Males 1 7 2 18 111 3 142
Females 5 6 4 10 71 5 101
Total 6 13 6 28 182 8 243
In the first quarter of the year there were 67 deaths; in the
second, 63; in the third, 51; and in the fourth, 62.
The number of males is, as usual, in excess of the females. This
fact is probably accounted for by the greater degree of exposure
of men, not only to infection but to all the disadvantages of
occupation, inclement weather, alcoholism, exhaustion, fatigue,
etc.
Dr. MacLearn, the Medical Superintendent of the Holborn
Infirmary, Archway Road, N., writes to me under date January,
1903:—"The total number of deaths from phthisis, occurring in
the Holborn Union Workhouse Infirmary, during 1907, was 137
(being 10 more than in 1905, and 21 more than in 1906), of these,
108 were patients coming from Finsbury. The total number of
phthisis cases now under treatment in this Infirmary, who are
residents of Finsbury, is 16 women and 153 men.