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he germ of the disease in enormous numbers. On drying it is easily
carried in the form of dust by air currents, and is without doubt a
fruitful source of danger to the healthy. The only means of combating
this danger is for the various Sanitary Authorities throughout the country
to take measures to diffuse a knowledge of the infective nature of
the disease among all classes of the populace and to urge upon everyone
the necessity for dealing with the expectoration of consumptives in such
a way as will render it inert and harmless. Some Authorities have
already begun to adopt this course and it is to be hoped it will soon
become general.
I would again point out that the want of provision to prevent
dampness in many of the older houses in the district, especially in
North Woolwich, also tends to perpetuate conditions that are favourable
to the spread of tubercular diseases.
Sex Of the total deaths in the Arsenal Registration Sub-
Mortality.
District, there were 271 males and 217 females; in the
Dockyard Registration Sub-District 201 males and 181 females; or, in
other words, of the 870 total deaths in the whole district 472 were of
males and 398 of females; 110 deaths in the Arsenal Sub-District, and
81 in the Dockyard, were of persons over 60 years of age.
Births and The number of births registered durins; the year was
Birth Rate.
1,253. Of these 11 were recorded as illegitimate. The
birth-rate is, therefore, 30.2 per thousand, that for the Dockyard being
27.0 per thousand, and for the Arsenal 32.9.
For the past seven years the birth-rate has been as follows:—
1892 29.9
1893 31.3
1894 30.5
1895 3o.9
1896 30.5
1897 31.5
1898 30.2