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Septic. Erysipelas. Five deaths occurred from this
cause in 1911, 3 in 1910, 1 in 1909, and 5 in 1908.
Puerperal Fever. There were 5 deaths from this disease
during the year.
Each of these deaths was particularly enquired into, but
there appeared to be no common source of infection, and
the origin was in no case able to be definitely traced.
Pyæmia and Septicæmia. There were 6 deaths from
this disease during the year. Infective Endocarditis. Two
deaths were ascribed to this cause, in East Greenwich. The
numbers were 2 in 1910, and 2 in 1909.
There were 3 deaths from the other diseases of the
septic class.
Malarial. Rheumatic Fever. There were no deaths
in 1911, as compared with, 4 in 1910, 4 in 1909, and 6 in 1908.
Rheumatism of the heart was the cause of 1 death. There
were no deaths from Malarial Fever.
Tuberculosis. This class includes the causes of 158
deaths during the year under review, with a rate of 1.65;
these figures compare with 136, 146 and 171, the totals of the
previous three years, and respective rates of 1.21, 1.32 and
1.54.
Tuberculosis of the Lungs (Consumption) is, as usual,
credited with the major portion of these deaths, there being
112 attributed to this cause, or a rate of 1.17 per 1,000, comparing
with 1.35 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, 0.64 in
Lewisham, 0.89 in Wandsworth, 0.93 in Kensington, 1.09
in Stoke Newington, up to 1.78 in Bermondsey, 1.84 in
Shoreditch, 1.87 in Finsbury, and 2.08 in Holborn.