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28 tubercular diseases.
It will be seen from Table IV. Appendix, that the greatest incidence was at ages
15-65 years. The mortality for the Borough calculated per 1,000 persons at those ages
was 1.45. Assuming the same incidence in other districts the following rates have been
calculated:—
Kensington 1.73 Hampstead 1.13
Westminster 2.27 Willesden 1.40
Marylebone 2.53 London 2.37
In general terms it may be said that the better the housing conditions of any given
population, the less will be the mortality from consumption. In the appended tables a comparison
is instituted between the mortalities from this disease at all ages, and at ages from
15 to 65 years, and the housing conditions, both in the Borough the Selected Districts and
the Wards of the Borough. As indices of the housing conditions, the percentages of the
total populations living under conditions of overcrowding (an average exceeding two persons
per room), and the proportions inhabiting homes of less than five rooms, have been taken.
The comparison being based on the experience of one year only it is not to be expected that
the series will show strict parallelism, but, allowing for accidental differences, it
is very close. In the first table Hampstead heads the list as having the lowest phthisis rates
and the lowest percentages of overcrowding, &c., while Marylebone is in each case at the
bottom with the highest. In the second table Lancaster Gate, East and West, Wards share
the honours of first place, and Church Ward, with the exception of the last column, is
at the bottom.