Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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these causes under five years were 86, compared with 140 and
81 in the two preceding years.
Tuberculosis.
69. Deaths. There were 209 deaths from Tuberculous
disease, giving a death-rate of 1.63 compared with 2.06, l.83,
1.71, 1.60 and 1.76, in the five preceding years. The tuberculosis
death.rate was 1.60 in 1907, but with that exception, last
year had the lowest rate recorded.
The following table gives the number of deaths from each of the various forms of tuberculosis in the past 8 years, and also the deaths from simple meningitis:—
Average 1901-5 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tuberculous meningitis | 200 | 22 | 19 | 27 | 27 |
Simple meningitis | 22.0 | 15 | 20 | 14 | 14 |
Tuberculosis of intestines and peritoneum | 13.0 | 14 | 11 | 13 | 9 |
Tuberculosis, other forms | 20.8 | 21 | 22 | 28 | 23 |
Phthisis | 192.0 | 164 | 154 | 156 | 150 |
71. The deaths from phthisis were 150, giving a death-rate
of 147, compared with 164, 1.47, 1.29, 1.19 and 123, in the
five preceding years. This is the lowest death-rate recorded.
The reduction in the death-rate since 1901 represents a saving
of 83 lives last year. The following table gives the death-rate
from phthisis in each parish during the five years 1901.5, and
in 1906, 1907,1908 and 1909, compared with London. The
greatest reduction was in the parish of Woolwich.