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The number of new cases of tuberculosis in this ward that have
been notified to me during 1913 is much in excess of those in other
districts of the Borough, but the factors above referred to should be
borne in mind in this connection, as in the case of the death-rates from
pulmonary tuberculosis.
The Kilburn Ward, and especially that portion of it usually known
as the Netherwood Street area, is one of the poorest and most crowded
in the Borough. The streets comprising this area are as follows:—
Netherwood Street, Palmerston Road, Kelson Street, Linstead Street,
Lowfield Road. I have extracted the following; figures, which have a
bearing on the consumption death-rate for the years 1898-1913. The
population of this area was ascertained to be 3,049 persons at a special
census taken in 1901, and this figure and those for each street have been
assumed to represent the average annual population for the purpose of
calculating the rates. I have adopted this method in view of the fact
that in the case of the three first-named streets it was found that in
1901 there had been a very slight reduction in the population as
compared with the number ascertained in 1898.