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Influenza, bronchitis, pneumonia.
70. Influenza caused 33 deaths compared with 62, 22, 60, 27,
and 23 in the five preceding years. Bronchitis and Pneumonia
caused 265 deaths, compared with 245, 299, 258, 278, and 255 in
the five preceding years.
Tuberculosis.
71. There were 221 deaths from Tuberculous disease, giving
a death-rate of 1.74, compared with 2.29, 1.86, 1.92, 2.06, and
1.83 in the five preceding years. This is the lowest rate
recorded.
The London death-rate was 2.02.
72. The following table gives the number of deaths from
each of the various forms of Tuberculosis in the past five years,
and also the deaths from simple meningitis.
Average 1901-5 1906.
Tuberculous Meningitis 20 22
Simple Meningitis 22 15
Tuberculosis of Intestines
and peritoneum 13.0 14
„ other forms 20.8 21
Phthisis 192.0 164
73. The deaths from Phthisis were 164, giving a death-rate
of 1.29, compared with 1.80, 1.49, 1.39, 1.64, and 1.47 in the
five preceding years. This is the lowest death-rate recorded;
the reduction in death-rate since 1901 represents a saving of 65
lives last year. The following table gives the death-rate from
Phthisis in each parish during the five years 1901-5 and in 1906
compared with London. There was a reduction in all the
parishes but most marked in Woolwich. The River Ward again
had the highest phthisis death-rate, and Burrage came next.