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County Council (General Powers) Act, 1907, came into
operation in 1908, and the decrease of deaths from tuberculosis
of the abdomen may be the direct result of this
action, but it is too soon to draw this conclusion.
For fifteen years the inhabitants of Woolwich have been
advised to make, and have to a large extent made, a practice
of boiling all milk before consumption, anct to this fact is
probably due That Woolwich has so small a death-rate from
consumption of the bowels.

71. 73 of those who died from Phthisis were males, and
GO females. In 1906 there were 97 males and 67 females;
in 1907, 82 males and 72 females; in 1908, 101 males and
55 females; and in 1909, 88 males and 62 females.
72. The source of infection was attributed in 61 deaths
from Tuberculosis, with more or loss probability, as follows:
Family or personal:—
Father 7
Husband 3
Carried forward 10