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therefore, higher than usual. A comparison of the death-rates in the eight wards
of the Borough is given in Table VII. (Appendix). The rate was highest in Moorfields
and lowest in Acton Ward.
Deaths from whooping cough were registered in every month of the year except
November, and they were most numerous during March, April, May and June.
The deaths from whooping cough in the metropolis numbered 1,786, as compared
with 1,226 in 1900 and 1,507 in 1905, the death-rate being 0.37, as against 0.26 in
1906 and 0.32 in 1905.
INFLUENZA.
Influenza was given as the cause of 23 deaths, as compared with 17 in 1906,
11 in 1905, 14 in 1904, 19 in 1903, 14 in 1902, 16 in 1901, 52 in 1900, and 35 in
1899. The figures for previous years are contained in the annual report for 1901.
The disease was most prevalent during the month of January, when more than half
the total number of deaths for the year occurred. During the last six months of
the year there was only one death certified as due to this disease; that occurred in
September.
The deaths attributed to influenza in the metropolis numbered 967, as compared
with 895 in 1906, 664 in 1905, 707 in 1904, 644 in 1903, 1,036 in 1902, 664 in
1901, and 1,950 in 1900. The deaths were most numerous during the first three
months of the year.
TUBERCULOSIS.
Tuberculosis (Appendix Table V., Nos. 29 to 34 inclusive) was given as the
cause of 327 deaths, as compared with 347 in 1906, 321 in 1905, 365 in 1904, 376
in . 1903, 295 in 1902, 363 in 1901, and 343 in 1900. The deaths from tuberculosis
amounted to nearly 14 per cent, of the total number of deaths from all causes during
the year. Last year it was 15 per cent. The death-rate was 2.8 per 1,000 population,
as compared with 3.0 in 190'6, 2.7 in 1905, and 3.1 in 1904. The rate was lowest
in Moorfields Ward, where it only amounted to 1.2 per 1,000, and highest in
Whitmore, where it reached 4.2 per 1,000 population. In connection with this it
may be mentioned that the population in Whitmore Ward is three times as dense
to the acre of space as it is in Moorfields, and, taking the population generally,
that of Moorfields is in better circumstances than that of Whitmore. These are,
without doubt, important factors in determining the difference between the tuberculosis
mortalities of these localities.
Tuberculosis of the lungs, that is to say, consumption or phthisis, resulted in
232 deaths, as compared with 233 in 1906. Of these 145 were of males and 87
of females. The great majority of these deaths were of persons in the wage-earning
period of life. The death-rate from consumption was 2.0 per 1,000 inhabitants,