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Puerperal Fever. There were 2 deaths from this disease
during the year.
Pyæmia and Septicæmia. There were 2 deaths from this
disease during the year. Infective Endocarditis. Two deaths
were ascribed to this cause, in East Greenwich. The numbers
were 2 in 1911, and 2 in 1910.
Malarial. Rheumatic Fever. There were 6 deaths in 1912,
as compared with none in 1911, 4 in 1910, and 4 in 1909. Rheumatism
of the heart was the cause of 2 deaths. There were no
deaths from Malarial Fever.
Tuberculosis. This class includes the causes of 172 deaths
during the year under review, with a rate of 1.80; these figures
compare with 158, 136 and 146, the totals of the previous three
years, and respective rates of 1.65, 1.21 and 1.32.
Tuberculosis of the Lungs (Consumption) is, as usual, credited
with the major portion of these deaths, there being 135 attributed
to this cause, or a rate of 1.41 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 0.64 in
Hampstead, 0.70 in Lewisham, 0.87 in Paddington and Stoke Newington,
0.93 in Wandsworth, up to 1.92 in Finsbury, 1.98 in the
City of London, 2.07 in Holborn, and 2.10 in Shoreditch.
Locally, the deaths were 1 in Kidbrooke, giving a Death Rate
of 0 35; 13 in Charlton, giving a Death Rate of 0.75; 19 in St.
Nicholas, giving a Death Rate of 2.62; 48 in West Greenwich,
giving a Death Rate of 2.12; and 54 in East Greenwich, giving
a Death Rate of 1.17 per 1,000.
The remaining forms of Tuberculosis were responsible for 37
deaths, 18 being in East Greenwich, 10 in West Greenwich, 3 in
St. Nicholas, 5 in Charlton, and 1 in Kidbrooke.
Of these other forms of Tuberculosis, Tuberculosis of the
Brain or its Membranes was credited with 21, 14 being under five