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74. Occupation. Of the 130 notified males, 67, or about
one half, were Arsenal employees, of whom 32 were labourers.
Probably considerably over one half the occupied males living
in the Borough are employed in the Royal Arsenal. 21 outside
the Arsenal were labourers (11 being dock labourers); 3 were
soldiers, 3 bootmakers, 2 stablehands ; the remainder included
a baker, a printer, a painter, a waterman, a lighterman, a
tailor, a draper, an outfitter and a cabdriver.
The 59 females included 3 servants, 2 laundry women, and
a barmaid.
Among the deaths were 4 persons engaged in the liquor
trade, namely a beerhouse keeper, a potman, the wife of a
beerhouse keeper, and a barmaid, giving a mortality of 4 3 per
1,000 persons employed in this trade, which is two-and-a-half
times the Phthisis mortality of the Borough (see also par. 84).
75. Three, or 10 per cent., of the deaths of natives of
Woolwich in Lunatic Asylums were from phthisis.
76. The prevention of promiscuous spitting.—The following
steps for the prevention of dangerous habits of expectorating
were taken during the year, in addition to those described in
previous reports :—-
(a) Notices requesting persons not to spit on the floor
were distributed and fixed in the bars of all public
houses in Woolwich Parish (this had previously been
done in Plumstead).
(b) A communication was addressed to the S.E.R. and the
G.E.R. Companies, requesting them to take steps to
prohibit spitting on the floors of their railway
carriages. This request was, at the Council's
suggestion, backed up by Greenwich and several other
of the South Metropolitan Borough Councils.