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These give an average during this period of 379 deaths per
year from Tuberculous Disease.
The average number of deaths per year in the Borough during
the same period from the whole of the following diseases, viz.
Scarlet Fever or Scarlatina, Diphtheria or Membranous Croup,
Enteric Fever, Measles and Whooping Cough, was 175; that is to
say, the annual mortality from tuberculous disease in the Borough
is more than twice that from the whole of the infectious diseases
quoted. It must further be remembered that Pulmonary Tuberculosis
is a very chronic disease, greatly incapacitating those suffering
from it from carrying on their ordinary avocations as citizens
during its course. These facts should be incentive enough to local
authorities to use all the powers they are entrusted with to assist
in eradicating such a disease from our midst. No other disease offers
in my opinion such promising prospects of yielding to treatment
and prevention as the disease under discussion.