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* Pyæmia and Septicæmia. There was 1 death from this
disease during the year. Infective Endocarditis. One death
was ascribed to this cause in 1917. The number was 4 in 1916,
0 in 1915, 4 in 1914, 0 in 1913 and 2 in 1912.
Malarial. Rheumatic Fever. There were 3 deaths in 1917,
as compared with 1 in 1916, 3 in 1915 and 1 in1914.
Tuberculosis. This class includes the causes of 219 deaths
during the year under review, with a rate of 2.42; these figures
compare with 141, 172 and 170, the totals of the previous three
years, and respective rates of 1.45, 1.80 and 1.80.
Tuberculosis of the lungs (Consumption) is, as usual, credited
with the major portion of these deaths, there being 182 attributed
to this cause, or a rate of 2 01 per 1,000.
Locally, the deaths were 2 in Kidbrooke, giving a Death Rate
of 0.74; 24 in St. Nicholas, giving a Death Rate of 3.5; 26 in
Charlton, giving a Death Rate of 1.61; 83 in West Greenwich,
giving a Death Rate of 3.87; and 84 in East Greenwich, giving
a Death Rate of 0.55 per 1,000.
The remaining forms of Tuberculosis were responsible for 37
deaths, 14 being in East Greenwich, 15 in West Greenwich, 3 in
St. Nicholas and 5 in Charlton.
Of these other forms of Tuberculosis, Tuberculosis of the
Brain or its Membranes was credited with 16, 13 being under five
years of age; Tubercle affecting the Intestines, 7 deaths (2
being under five years of age); General Tuberculosis, 10 deaths
(6 under and 4 over five); and other forms, 4.
Parasiitic Diseases. There were no deaths from this class of
disease.
Dietic Diseases. There were no deaths from this class of
disease.
Constitutional Diseases. The deaths from this cause were
123 in number, which gives a rate of 1.36 per 1,000. Of these, 98
were attributed to Cancer, 13 to Diabetes, 4 to Osteo-Arthritis, 4 to
Gout, 4 to Anaemia. The deaths from Cancer were distributed as
follows:—39 occurred in East Greenwich, 32 in West Greenwich,
8 in St. Nicholas, 15 in Charlton and 3 in Kidbrooke.
Developmental Diseases. There were 212 deaths from this
class of causes, equal to a rate of 2.35 per 1,000.
These may roughly be divided into those from causes which
would appear to be unavoidable viz.:—Congenital defects, 7, and