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TUBERCULOSIS.
The total mortality from all forms of the disease was 1.28 last year, as compared with 1.12
in 1911 and an average of 1.31 during the five years 1908-1.3. The mortality rates observed
in the Wards are shown below. In Queen's Park and the two Lancaster Gate Wards last year's
rates were in excess of the averages ; in the other Wards, below.

In the circumjacent districts last year's rates (all forms) were below the averages, except in
Westminster and St. Marylebone, when there were slight increases.

The numbers of deaths from each form of tuberculosis in the Borough during the year have
been given above. A more condensed tabulation will be found in Table III. in the Appendix.
Table 39 contains a sex-age distribution of the deaths allocated to the Wards, and Table IV.,
Appendix, shows the totals for each sex in a more condensed form.
The mortality from pulmonary tuberculosis in the Borough was at the rate of 1.07 per 1,000
persons last year, as compared with 0.82 in 1912, and an average 1908-12 of l.00. The mortality
from all other forms of tuberculosis was 0'21 per 1,000 in 1913, 0'32 in 1912, and 0.31 during
1908-12. According to the figures given in Table 24, the Borough rate from pulmonary tuberculosis
(1.08) was exceeded by the rates recorded in Westminster (1.31) and St. Marylebone
(1.35). In Hampstead and Willesden last year's rates were below the averages for 1908-12 ; in
all the other circumjacent districts and in the Borough, above. The 1913 mortality from "other
forms of tuberculosis " in Westminster (0 28) was the only one in excess of that recorded in the
Borough (0 21). All last year's rates were below the averages, excepting St. Marylebone, where
the two rates were equal.
The mortality rates for the Wards of the Borough are given below. The high rates for
pulmonary tuberculosis recorded in Queen's Park and Church Wards are far from satisfactory,
but, although based on small numbers, the increases observed in the two Lancaster Gate Wards
are, perhaps, even more disquieting. As compared with the other Wards, Queen's Park, Harrow
Road, and Church have unduly high rates from " other forms."