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During the months of July, August and September an experimental daily collection of house
refuse was instituted in the Southam Street area of the Golborne Ward between the canal and the
Great Western Railway. The deaths from epidemic diarrhæa in this area between July 14th and
October 15th numbered 10, as compared with 3 deaths during the same period in the preceding
year. In the remainder of the Golborne Ward the deaths from epidemic diarrhæa also numbered
3 in 1912, and 10 in 1913 in the same three months under a system of weekly collection. Daily
collection accordingly failed to prevent the increase in mortality from diarrhæa which was due to
the greater heat in the summer months in 1913 as compared with 1912.
TUBERCULOSIS
The number of deaths from tuberculosis was 240, the crude and standardised death-rates being
1 40 per 1,000. The mortality in the years 1901-1913 from phthisis, other tuberculous diseases, and
all forms of tuberculosis is expressed in the following Table as the number of deaths per 100,000
persons living in the periods to which the death-rate? refer.

Since 1900 the death-rate from tuberculosis has varied between extremes of 195 per 100,000
ii: 1904, and 109 in 1910, as compared with a rate of 140 in the year under consideration, and an
average rate of 159 in the ten years 1901-1910. In the year under notice the deaths from phthisis
(pulmonary tuberculosis) numbered 189, and corresponded to a crude death-rate of 110 per 1,000
living, and a standardised rate of 1.00. The deaths from other forms of tuberculosis numbered 51,
and were equivalent to a death-rate of 0-3 per 1,000 of the population.
The incidence of deaths from tuberculosis nn the Wards in the Borough was as follows:—