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Great improvement has taken place during 1908, the death rate
being only 0.19 per 1,000.
Enteric Fever.—There were four fatal cases, equal to
a death rate of 0.03 per 1,000. The case mortality was equal
to 12.9 per cent. of the persons affected, compared with 3.7 per
cent, for the preceding year.
Epidemic Diarrhoea and Epidemic Enteritis.—The total
deaths recorded in the year from these two diseases amounted
to 43 (compared with 10, 111 and 32 in 1907, 1906 and 1905
respectively), equivalent to a death rate of 0.27 per 1,000,
compared with 0.07, 0.75 and 0.22 in 1907, 1906 and 1905
respectively, (See Tables 14 and 16).
Deaths from other Infective Diseases were:—Dysentery, 2;
Influenza, 28; Puerperal Fever, 2; Erysipelas, 1; Venereal
Disease, 5; Septicaemia not Puerperal, 6; Pyaemia, 2; and
Infective Endocarditis, 2; and Other Septic Diseases, 2.
CLASS II.—Tuberculous Diseases (191).—Phthisis.—This
disease was responsible for 135 deaths, or 7.7 per cent. of the total
1,757 deaths from all causes. This mortality is equal to a death
rate of 0.85 per 1,000 (compared with 0.90 in 1907) for the
whole Borough, the lowest rate of the Ten Southern Metropolitan
Boroughs. Of the remaining London sanitary districts, only
Hampstead, with 0.78, is lower. The district having the highest
mortality from this cause was Finsbury, with 2.15 per 1,000.
The death rate for the County of London was 1.32. 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 14).
CLASS III.—Malignant Diseases (151).—Cancer was the
stated cause of 110 deaths (compared with 102 in 1907) equal to a
mortality rate of 0*69 per 1,000. On sub-dividing these deaths,