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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Woolwich 1899

The eleventh annual report of the health, sanitary condition, etc., etc., of the District of Woolwich for the year 1899

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in the Arsenal Registration Sub-District. The corresponding figures in
1898 were 61 and 57 respectively, so that the slight excess in the
Dockyard Sub-District to which I referred in my last report, was in the
year just passed converted into an excess in the Arsenal Sub-District,
as in the year 1897, when the figures were 37 and 63.
The deaths registered during the past eight years as arising from
Tubercular causes were as follows:—
1892 112
1893 121
1894 126
1895 119
1896 124
1897 100
1898 118
1899 141

Table: By far the greater number of Deaths from Tubercular disease are due to Phthisis, as is shown by the following table:—

By far the greater number of Deaths from Tubercular disease are due to Phthisis, as is shown by the following table:—

Deaths from Phthisis.Deaths from other Tubercular Diseases.
1896.1897.1898.1899.1896.1897.1898.1899.
Dockyard District373245431651611
Arsenal District5049395721141830
Totals87818410037193441

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Of the total Deaths from tubercular diseases during 1899, 31 were
of children under 5 years of age, and no of persons at ages of 5 and
upwards.
It will thus be seen that the total deaths both from Phthisis, and
other Tubercular diseases for 1899 are the highest on record; it should
also be noted that of the 100 deaths from Phthisis, 39 took place in the
Union Infirmary.