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over by a horse and cart. A boy struck by falling roof of football
pavilion in a gale. A child burnt by clothes igniting.
Four children suffocated in bed. One child fell out of bed. A
child was poisoned with carbolic acid, and an adult with
ammonia. A child died from injudicious feeding.
Other causes of Death.
(See Table II.)
10. Twenty deaths under 5, and seven over 5 were due to
Tuberculosis, besides those from Phthisis. There were 37
deaths from cancer compared with 33 and 31 in the two
preceding years; 15 deaths were either attributed to alcoholism
or to diseases like cirrhosis of the liver, which are almost
invariably the result of alcoholism; 71 deaths were from
premature birth and low vitality.
East and West Plumstead Compared.
11. It is characteristic of the past year that as regards the
general death-rate, the infantile death-rate, and the deaths
from Phthisis, East Plumstead compared very unfavourably
with West, both absolutely and relatively to the last two years.
Plumstead compared with the other Sanitary
Areas of the Metropolis.
(See Table VII).
12. Five districts had a lower death-rate, viz:—Hampstead,
Stoke Newington, Lee, Lewisham, and Wandsworth. Two
only had a lower infantile death-rate, viz :—Stoke Newington
and Wandsworth. It must be remembered that Plumstead is
the only sanitary area whose death-rate does not need to be
corrected for age distribution. If this correction were applied,
Plumstead would take at least the third place, if not the second.