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from 25 to 55 years. Of males there died 160, as compared with only 57 of females.
The consumption death-rate was 1.9 per 1,000 population, as compared with 1.7
in 1911, 1.4 in 1910 and 1.7 in 1909. The rate was highest in Hoxton Ward and
lowest in Haggerston, being 4.8 per 1,000 in the former and 1.1 in the latter ward.
The deaths from tuberculosis in the Metropolis numbered 7,451, giving a
death-rate of 1.64 per 1,000 inhabitants. Of these 6,069 were attributed to con.
sumption, the death-rate being 1.34 per 1,000, as compared with 1.34 for 1910.
In accordance with the requirements of the Public Health (Tuberculosis)
Regulations, 1908, during the year, 311 certificates were received as to consumptive
inmates of Poor Law institutions, 161 from the district medical officers as to consumptive
patients upon whom they were in attendance as officers of the guardians,
and 136 relating to the discharges of consumptives from Poor Law institutions.
Altogether some 608 certificates were received relating to 343 persons suffering
from consumption. Of these, 32 were persons who had been previously certified
in 1911, so that 311 were certified for the first time in Shoreditch during the year.
The numbers certified in 1911, 1910 and 1909 were 292, 241, and 313 respectively.
Altogether some 1,157 persons therefore have, been certified as suffering from consumption
under the above-mentioned regulations during the past 4 years.
Under the Public Health (Tuberculosis in Hospitals) Regulations, 1911, there
were, excluding duplicates, some 857 certificates as compared with 1,100 for 1911.
Of these 197 were passed on from the medical officers of health of the sanitary
authorities to whom they had been sent in the first place, in accordance with the
requirements of the regulations. Most of the certificates came from medical officers
at the Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, which is situate in the Borough,
and the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest in Bethnal Green, but
numerous certificates came from other institutions in London and elsewhere, including
most of the great general hospitals of the Metropolis. Of the certificates
received, 615 were in respect of patients not resident in Shoreditch. These were
forwarded in accordance with the regulations to the medical officers of health of
the sanitary authorities concerned, from 50 to 60 in number, mostly in or near
London. The remaining 242 certificates related to persons who were resident in
Shoreditch.
On January 1st of the year under consideration a third series of Regulations
made under a General Order of the Local Government Board, dated November
15th, 1911, came into operation. These are known as the Public Health (Tuberculosis)
Regulations, 1911, and make cases of pulmonary tuberculosis occurring in
the private practices of medical practitioners notifiable. Under these regulations
some 270 persons were notified.