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Cancer and
other Tumours.
There were exactly the same number of deaths
as last year, but they were 5 above the average.
While it is not improbable that there has been an increase
of Cancer, it must be noted that part of this apparent
increase is due to the deaths that have occurred in institutions,
and really belong to other parts of London and
the country. These deaths are all included in the
Table.
Tubercular
Diseases.
The deaths from this group of diseases, which
includes Consumption, were 276, a larger
number actually than in any year of the decade, but less
than the average by 25. Here again the figures are affected
by deaths of outside persons, as Cancer and
Tubercular Diseases form a large proportion of the deaths
in institutions. Reduction in the number of deaths in
this group is important, because of the relationship
between them and general sanitary conditions, such as
overcrowding and dirtiness. The Phthisis death-rate is
sometimes taken as an index of the healthiness or otherwise
of a district. The corrected rate for the District
was 1.14 per thousand living, whilst that for the Metropolis
was 1.71, and the adjacent parishes of Battersea
and Lambeth 1.49 and 1.67 respectively.
Diseases of
the Nervous
System.
Though there was an increase on the previous
year, there was a saving of 78 on the corrected
average.
Diseases of
the Organs of
Circulation.
On the other hand, the deaths in this group are
in excess of the average by 43. A general tendency
of these deaths to increase is seen from
the Table, those in the earlier years of the decade being
somewhat markedly less than those of the later.
Respiratory
Diseases.
The deaths from lung diseases were few, 355,
and show a substantial saving of 145 on the
average; they, of course, are not inclusive of Phthisis,
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