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Septic. Erysipelas. Five deaths occurred from this
cause in 1908, 3 in 1907, 2 in 1906, and 5 in 1905.
Puerperal Fever. There were no deaths from this disease
during the year.
Pyæmia and Septicæmia. There were no deaths from
this disease during the year. Infective Endocarditis. Three
deaths were ascribed to this cause, 2 in East Greenwich and 1 in
West Greenwich. The numbers were 2 in 1907, and 1 in 1906.
There was one death from the other diseases of the septic
class.
Malarial. Rheumatic Fever. This disease was the
cause of 6 deaths in 1908, as compared with 6 in 1904, and three
in each of the two preceding years.
Rheumatism of the heart was given as the cause of 1 death.
Tuberculosis. This class includes the causes of 171 deaths
during the year under review, with a rate of 1.54; these figures
compare with 143, 161 and 185, the totals of the previous three
years, and respective rates of 1.34, 1.53, and 1.79.
Tuberculosis of Lungs (Consumption) is, as usual, credited
with the major portion of these deaths, there being 126 attributed
to this cause, or a rate of 1.14 per 1,000, comparing with 1.32 per
1,000, the phthisis death rate for the whole of London. Amongst
the Metropolitan Boroughs this death rate ranged from 0.78 in
Hampstead, 0.85 in Lewisham, 0.96 in Wandsworth, 0.98 in
Kensington, 1.01 in Paddington, up to 1.88 in Southwark, l.89
in Bermondsey, 2.00 in Shoreditch, 2.11 in Holbom, and 2.15 in
Finsbury.