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Alcoholism.
The number of deaths certified as directly due to this cause was 6, exactly twice
as many as in the previous year. The number due to cirrhosis of the liver, in most
cases probably resulting from abuse of alcohol, was, however, lower by 4, viz., 17 as
against 21.
The combined figure for these two diseases is 23, the figures for 1908, 1909 and
1910 being 35, 30 and 24.
The deaths from other conditions due to the irritation produced in various organs
by chronic alcoholism, e.g., nephritis (inflammation of the kidneys) and Bright's
disease of the kidneys, are also fewer than in previous years, numbering 54 (.48 per
1,000), as against 57 in 1910 and 69 in 1909.
Accident, Suicide and Manslaughter.
Accidental or violent deaths during 1911 numbered 57. Of these, 17 were due to
suicide. Deaths of babies certified as resulting from suffocation (overlying)
numbered 7.
RECORDS OF DISEASE.
The diseases of which records are kept, are in addition to those named in
Section 55 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, as compulsorily notifiable,
certain others added by orders made by the London County Council. The first
diseases originally notifiable were smallpox, cholera, diphtheria, membranous croup,
erysipelas, scarlet fever, typhus, typhoid, or enteric, relapsing, continued and puerperal
fevers.
Those added by the London County are cerebro-spinal fever, glanders, anthrax,
hydrophobia, acute polio-encephalitis and myelitis, ophthalmia neonatorum, and
chicken pox.