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The rates are calculated per 100,000 inhabitants.
The rate for London was 139 from pulmonary tuberculosis.
Seventy-three of the deaths from pulmonary disease occurred at
home, 31 in hospitals and sanatoriums, 81 in infirmaries, and 13 in
asylums.
Deaths from other forms occurred at home 11, in hospitals 23, in
infirmaries 5, and in asylums 2.
Two visitors deal with tuberculous cases. They keep the patients
and their surroundings under constant observation. They arrange for
hospital, sanatorium, or convalescent treatment, and endeavour in
suitable cases to see that additional food, &c., is supplied through
School Care Committees, the Insurance Committee, the Guardians,
and various charitable agencies. Very little information is obtainable
about the casual and homeless consumptive, and full particulars
are not always obtainable with respect to a number of those
notified from private addresses, for various reasons, such as in the
case of persons who have been in lodgings for short periods only,
and do not return on discharge from hospital or infirmary, and
persons notified from hotels where the stay was temporary. Soldiers
admitted to the Military Hospital from the various barracks are
not visited; there were 3 of these in 1914. When the death of an
un-notified person occurs the family is visited, if still in the district.
The number of consumptive patients visited during the year was 734,
and patients suffering from other forms, 235. At the end of the year
there were 455 consumptives and 167 other patients remaining on the
visiting list.