[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich] page 42

Woolwich 1903

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]

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difficult and uncertain, it may be that there has been a transference
from simple to tubercular meningitis, i.e., that cases which
a few years ago were called meningitis are now called tubercular
meningitis.
79. The deaths from phthisis were 171, giving a death rate
of 1.39 compared with 1.79,1.80 and 1.47 in the three preceding
years. There was thus a reduction in the four years of 23 per
cent. in phthisis mortality.

Table: 80. The following table gives the death rate from Phthisis per 1000 population, in each ward during the past three years:—

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80. The following table gives the death rate from Phthisis per 1000 population, in each ward during the past three years:—

	1901.		1902.		1903.
	No.	Rate	No.	Rate.	No.	Rate.
Woolwich Parish	105	2.52	83	1.99	81	1.94
River, North	46	3.17	4	115	4	1.16
,, South	46	3.17	25	2.15	26	2.27
Dockyard	17	1.95	18	2.03	13	1.49
St. Mary's	23	2.20	19	1.79	22	2.10
St. George's	19	2.35	17	2.06	16	1.98
Plumstead	104	1.49	94	1.30	84	1.18
St. Nicholas	33	1.63	25	1.08	29	1.26
Central	15	1.46	13	1.24	8	0.78
Glyndon	18	1.83	14	1.39	11	1.11
St. Margaret's	14	1.37	17	1.41	12	1.01
Herbert	12	1.30	9	0.91	7	0.72
Burrage	12	1.22	16	1.59	17	1.72
Eltham	6	0.77	6	0.59	6	0.56
The Borough	215	1.80	183	1.47	171	1.39
London	..	1.66	..	1.60	••	1.55

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Table: 80. The following table gives the death rate from Phthisis per 1000 population, in each ward during the past three years:—