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In class IV. 119 deaths are recorded as arising from some
form of tubercular disease, of which number 49 occurred in
the Dockyard Registration Sub-District, and 70 in the Arsenal
Registration Sub-District.
The great difference between these numbers is occasioned not by
the deaths from Tabes Mesenterica, Tubercular Meningitis and
Hydrocephalus, but to deaths from Phthisis, which were 34 in the
Dockyard Registration Sub-District, and 49 in the Arsenal. Twentythree
of the total deaths were of children under 5 years of age and 96 at
ages from 5 and upwards.

I have in previous reports drawn marked attention to the mortality
from Tubercular causes in the district, and indicated its grave
importance.
As I have before remarked there is no doubt that in most, if not all
of the older houses of the district, there is no provision to prevent
dampness, and especially is this the case with the houses in North
Woolwich, and to this defect I attribute much of the evil.
The Sanitary Authority must continue to insist upon all proper means
being adopted to remedy this, fraught as it obviously is with the most
serious injury to health.
Sex Of the total deaths in the Arsenal Registration Sub-
Mortahty. there were 258 males and 173 females, in the
Dockyard Registration Sub-District 186 males and 154 females, or in
other words, of the 771 total deaths in the whole district 444 were of
males and 327 of females. 195 deaths were of persons over 60 years of
age.
Phthisis,
Mortality,
etc.
Sex
Mortality.
Of the total deaths in the Arsenal Registration SubDistrict
there were 258 males and 173 females, in the
Dockyard Registration Sub-District 186 males and 154 females, or in
other words, of the 771 total deaths in the whole district 444 were of
males and 327 of females. 195 deaths were of persons over 60 years of
age.