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This number of deaths gives an annual mortality of T48 per
1,000 living.
This death-rate from tuberculous disease is very high; but
it is interesting, and at the same time gratifying, to know that
it is a progressively declining rate. In order to show this fact, I
have extracted the yearly deaths from this disease for the last
15 years, and grouped them in periods of three years as under:—
Three Year
Periods.
Annual average number
of deaths from
Tuberculous Disease.
Percentage decrease
on the period
1898-1900.
1898-1900 483 —
1901-1903 452 6.4%
1904-1906 417 13.7%
1907-1909 382 21.0%
1910-1912 363 24.8%
1913 332 31.3%
It will be seen from this that the average annual number of
deaths from tuberculosis has progressively decreased during the
period in question, the decline from the period 1898-1900 to 1913
being equal to 313 per cent. There is ample reason to hope that
with the advent of co-ordinated measures for the treatment of this
disease, the decline in the mortality in future years will be greater.