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to 5.0 per cent. of the persons affected, compared with 18.2 per
cent. for the preceding year.
Epidemic Diarrhoea and Epidemic Enteritis.—The total
deaths recorded in the year from these two diseases amounted
to 111. compared with 32 in 1905 and 112 in 1904. Thus
summer diarrhoea was the most fatal zymotic disease during the
year, producing a death-rate of 0.75 per 1,000 of the population,
compared with 0.22 in 1905 and 0.80 in 1904. (See Tables 13
and 17).
Deaths from other Infective Diseases were:—Influenza,
20; Puerperal Fever, 2; Erysipelas, 3; Venereal Disease, 5;
Septicoemia not Puerperal, 7; Pyaemia, 3; and other Septic
Diseases, 6.
CLASS II.—Tuberculous Diseases (175).- Phthisis.—This
disease was responsible for 119 deaths, or 6.7 per cent. of the total
1,777 deaths from all causes. This mortality is equal to a death
rate of 0.80 per 1,000 (compared with 0.87 in 1905) for the
whole Borough, the lowest rate of the ten Southern Metropolitan
Boroughs. Of the remaining London sanitary districts, only
Hampstead, with 0.07, is lower. The district having the highest
mortality from this cause was Holborn, with 2.37 per 1,000.
The death rate for the County of London was 1.44. The
position of Lewisham, therefore, in comparison with other
Boroughs, is most satisfactory.
In addition to Phthisis, 56 deaths were registered as due to
various forms of tubercular disease. (See Table 15).
CLASS III.--Malignant Diseases (136).—Cancer was the
stated cause of 105 deaths, compared with 104 in 1905, equal to a
mortality rate of 0.71 per 1,000. On sub-dividing these deaths,
16 were registered in Lee, 61 in Lewisham, and 28 in Sydenham
and Forest Hill. For other diseases of this Class. (see Table 15.)