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has lately received a great impetus from the meeting of a
number of representative men, held at Marlborough House,
under the presidency of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, to
further the objects of a National Association for the prevention
of consumption and other forms of tuberculosis.
The gathering was a notable one, and the objects of the
newly-formed association were lucidly stated by Sir
William Broadbent as follows:—
(1.) To educate the public as to the means of preventing
the spread of consumption from those already suffering
from the disease.
(2.) To extinguish tuberculosis in cattle.
(3.) To promote the erection of Sanatoria for the open
air treatment of tuberculous disease.
III.—Local Diseases.
The 375 deaths from local diseases, so named after the
systems or organs to which the diseases relate, occurred in
their order of fatality as follows:—
Diseases of the respiratory system 139
do. do. nervous do. 7 3
do. do. circulatory do. 70
do. do. digestive do. 61
do. do. urinary do. 31
Other diseases 11
Bronchitis and pneumonia were reponsible for 134 of
the deaths, 47 of these being young children under five
years.