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98
1909]
Tubercular Diseases.—Tuberculosis of the Lungs or Phthisis, Tuberculosis
of the Brain or Tubercular Meningitis, Tuberculosis of the Larynx, Tuberculosis
of the Abdomen or Tabes Mesenterica, and General Tuberculosis.
Tubercular diseases caused 582 deaths, which were equal to a death-rate
of 1.65 per 1,000 of the population. Of these deaths 128 occurred among
children under 5 years old and represented a death-rate of 3.39 per 1,000 living
at this age.
Phthisis or Tuberculosis of the Lungs.—This disease, commonly
called consumption, was credited with 424 deaths, a decrease of 8 on the
return of the preceding years, and of 12 on the return for 1907. It is, however,
above that of the year 1906, but 105 below the corrected average of the preceding
15 years, the particulars respecting which are set out in the statement
given below.
Phthisis.
Years.
Deaths
Death rates
per 1,000
inhabitants.
Proportion of
Deaths from Phthisis
per 100 Deaths
from All Causes.
Death rates
from All Causes
per 1,000
inhabitants.
1894 539 1.63 10.24 15.9
1895 568 1.70 9.86 17.2
1896 530 1.54 9.01 17.4
1897 520 1.54 9.64 16.0
1898 527 1.56 9.24 16.9
1899 583 1.73 9.26 18.7
1900 602 1.79 10.52 17.0
1901 545 1.62 10.16 15.9
1902 515 1.50 9.14 16.4
1903 492 1.45 10.16 14.3
1904 533 1.56 10.18 15.3
1905 438 1.28 8.84 14.4
1906 411 1.19 8.14 14.6
1907 436 1.26 8.58 14.6
1908 432 1.21 9.23 13.1
Corrected average 529 1.51 9.48 15.9
1909 424 1.21 8.62 14.0