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120 Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
The total number of deaths from tubercular diseases
was 115, an increase of 21, compared with 1897, but
08 below the corrected average.
The number of deaths in external institutions was
19, and in internal institutions 21, the corrected total
being thus 118, compared with 102 in 1897.
The total death-rate from all tubercular diseases
was 196 per 1,000, compared with 1.79 in 1896. The
death-rate in England and Wales for the decennium
1881-90 was 243.
From Consumption, or Phthisis Pulraonalis, the corrected
number of deaths was 72, compared with 71 in
1897, 61 in 1896, 78 in 1S95, and 75 in 1894. The
death-rate was l.23 per 1,000, the same as last year. In
the decennium 1881-90 this rate for England and Wales
was 1.73.
Other tubercular diseases were the cause of 46
deaths, compared with 31 in 1897, and 36 in 1896. 22 of
these deaths were of infants under one year, and 12 of
children from one to five years.
From Gout, Rheumatism, Cancer, and other constitutional
diseases, 54 deaths were registered, three less than
last year, and 2.9 under the decennial average.
Cancer alone was the cause of 41 deaths, compared
with 46 in 1897, and 57 in 1896.
From diseases of the brain and nervous system
there were 101 deaths, compared with 114 in 1897.
This shows a decrease also of 28 compared with the
decennial average, 46 of these deaths occurred in the
Middlesex Lunatic Asylum, while 24 occurred in external
institutions, giving a corrected total of 79, compared
with 75 last year.