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Pyæmia and Septicemia. There were 4 deaths from
this disease during the year. Infective Endocarditis. Two
deaths were ascribed to this cause, 1 in East Greenwich and 1 in
West Greenwich. The numbers were 3 in 1908, and 2 in 1907.
There was one death from the other diseases of the septic
class.
Malarial. Rheumatic Fever. This disease was the
cause of 4 deaths in 1909, as compared with 6 in 1908, 6 in
1907, and 3 in 1906. Rheumatism of the Heart and Malarial
Fever were each given as the cause of a death.
Tuberculosis. This class includes the causes of 146 deaths
during the year under review, with a rate of 1.32 ; these figures
compare with 171, 143, and 161, the totals of the previous three
years, and respective rates of 1.54, 1.34, and 1.53.
Tuberculosis of Lungs (Consumption) is, as usual, credited
with the major portion of these deaths, there being 112 attributed
to this cause, or rate of 1.01 per 1,000, comparing with 1.31 per
1,000, the phthisis death rate for the whole of London. Amongst
the Metropolitan Boroughs this death rate ranged from 0.61 in
Hampstead, 0.80 in Lewisham, 0.83 in Stoke Newington, 0.93 in
Wandsworth, 0.96 in Kensington, up to 1.78 in Bermondsey,
1.79 in Southwark, 2.05 in Holborn, 2.15 in City of London,
and 2.22 in Finsbury.
Locally, the deaths were 2 in Kidbrooke, giving a death rate
of 0.56 ; 16 in St. Nicholas, giving a death rate of 1.89 ; 17 in
Charlton, giving a death rate of 0.81 ; 28 in West Greenwich,