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of non-tuberculous is possibly due to the fact that there is no
general hospital or dispensary in Woolwich, and many cases
go, in consequence, to the Dispensary, who would otherwise
in the first instance attend the out-patient department of a
general hospital.
Fifty per cent. of approved expenditure on the Dispensary
scheme is paid by the Ministry of Health and twenty-five
per cent. by the London County Council. Grant is not paid
for expenses incurred in administering the Tuberculosis
Regulations.
Details of the Council's Tuberculosis Service are given in
the following pages and the various details will be found
under corresponding letters to those set out above. Before
dealing with them, however, it is convenient here to refer to
the mortality statistics.
Deaths. The deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis in
Woolwich during 1925 numbered 160, giving a death-rate of
114 per 1,000 of the population, the lowest figure recorded
since 1912. The corresponding figures for 1924 were 171
and 122 respectively. Deaths from other forms of tuberculosis
numbered 27, as against 28 in the preceding year, the
death-rate being 019 per 1,000 of the population. The
decrease in mortality in 1925 under 1924 is almost entirely
confined to pulmonary, but ten additional deaths were reported
in the age period 25-45. Nine children under 1 year
died of tuberculosis. In five instances it was definitely
established that they were contacts of mothers who had
positive sputum. Such facts as these lend support to the
view that children of tuberculous mothers would be better
removed from immediate contact with them.
The deaths and death-rates from tuberculosis, classified
by type of disease, annually, since 1912, have been as follows: