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Puerperal Fever. There were 3 deaths from this disease
during the year.
Pyaemia and Septicemia. There were 9 deaths from this
disease during the year. Infective Endocarditis. No deaths
were ascribed to this cause in 1915. The number was 1 in 1914,
0 in 1913 and 2 in 1912.
Malarial. Rheumatic Fever. There were 3 deaths in 1915,
as compared with 1 in 1914, 6 in 1913 and 6 in 1912.
Tuberculosis. This class includes the causes of 202 deaths
during the year under review, with a rate of 2.09; these figures
compare with 176, 141 and 172, the totals of the previous three
years, and respective rates of 1.85, 1.45 and 1.80.
Tuberculosis of the lungs (Consumption) is, as usual, credited
with the major portion of these deaths, ihere being 154 attributed
to this cause, or a rate of 160 per 1,000.
Locally, the deaths were 9 in Kidbrooke, giving a Death Rate
of 3.15; 23 in St. Nicholas, giving a Death Rate of 3.16; 27 in
Charlton, giving a Death Rate of 1.60; 45 in West Greenwich,
giving a Death Rate of 1.96; and 50 in East Greenwich, giving
a Death Rate of 1.08 per 1,000
The remaining forms of Tuberculosis were responsible for 48
deaths, 22 being in fcast Greenwich, 15 in West Greenwich, 6 in
St. Nicholas, 2 in Charlton and 3 in Kidbrooke
Of these other forms of Tuberculosis, Tuberculosis oi the
Brain or its Membranes was credited with 19, 12 being under five
years of age; Tubercle affecting the Intestines, 6 deaths (1
being under five years of age); General Tuberculosis, 18 deaths
(8 under and 10 over five); and other forms, 5.
Parasitic Diseases. There were no deaths from this class of
disease.
Dietic Diseases. There were 7 deaths from this class of
disease. 1 due to Acute Alcoholism in West Greenwich, 2 St.