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DEATHS
The total deaths from tuberculosis of all types during the year numbered 57
of which 35 were males and 22 females. In the previous year the total number was
86, of which 56 were males and 30 females. Of the total deaths from tuberculosis,
the pulmonary form of the disease accounted for 47, or 82'5 per cent., and the non.
pulmonary form for 10, or 17.5 per cent. The death rate from pulmonary tuberculosis
was 0.59 and from non.pulmonary 0.12, making a total death rate from all
forms of the disease of 0.71. The corresponding figures for 1937 were, pulmonary
0.89, non.pulmonary 0.16, a total of 1.05. The average death rates for the five years
1933.1937 in respect of pulmonary tuberculosis, non.pulmonary tuberculosis and all
forms of tuberculosis, respectively, were 0.82, 0.13 and 0.95. The figures for 1938,
therefore, represent a decrease of 0.23 in the pulmonary and a decrease of 0.01
in the non.pulmonary rate on the average of the five previous years, making a decrease
for all forms of the disease of 0.24 compared with the average of those years.
The following tables show the incidence of cases of tuberculosis and of deaths
from that disease for the last ten years for Shoreditch, London and England and
Wales respectively:—
NOTIFICATIONS PER 1,000 POPULATION