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I have great hopes that when the proposed Municipal Bacteriological
Laboratory in the Borough gets into working order we may
be able to offer to medical men for patients living in the Borough
facilities for having blood examinations made to assist in the
diagnosis of cases of this serious disease. As a corollary
I feel sure that the Council, when the necessity is placed
before them, will see their way to granting facilities for special
treatment in cases where it is absolutely necessary, but, at the
same time, far beyond the patients' means to accomplish, on lines
somewhat similar to those attempted and carried out so successfully
with regard to the distribution of Diphtheria Anti-toxin.
There were no deaths from Gonorrhoea during the year.
Septic. Erysipelas. One death occurred from this cause
in 1913, 1 in 1912, 5 in 1911 and 3 in 1910.
Puerperal Fever. There were 2 deaths from this disease
during the year.
Pyaemia and Septicemia. There was 1 death from this disease
during the year. Infective Endocarditis. No deaths were
ascribed to this cause in 1913. The numbers were 2 in 1912, 2 in
1911 and 2 in 1910.
Malarial. Rheumatic Fever. There were 6 deaths in 1913,
as compared with 6 in 1912, none in 1911 and 4 in 1910. Rheumatism
of the heart was the cause of 2 deaths, and Malarial Fever
was the cause of 2 deaths.
Tuberculosis. This class includes the causes of 141 deaths
during the year under review, with a rate of 1.45; these figures
compare with 172, 158 and 136, the totals of the previous three
years, and respective rates of 1.80, 1.65 and 1.21.
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 1.5 per 1,000, comparing with T30 per
1,000, the Phthisis Death Rate for the whole of London. Amongst
the Metropolitan Boroughs this Death Rate ranged from 0 57 in