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12.
There were 476 deaths in 1928 from diseases of the
respiratory organs, equal to 26.7 per cent., of the total
deaths. This number was made up as follows:—
bronchitis 174; pneumonia (inflammation of the lungs),
158; tuberculosis of the lungs, 114; other respiratory
diseases, 30. A large number of the deaths from bronchitis
(65 per cent.), were in persons over 65. In
the case of the deaths from pneumonia 34 per cent. were
in persons over 65 years of age and 25 per cent. were
in children under 2 years.
Diseases of the organs of circulation caused 267
deaths in 1928, including 202 from heart diseases and
87 from arteriosclerosis, but including haemorrhage into
the brain, the deaths from circulatory diseases were 354.
Ninety-two persons died of inflammation of the
kidneys (nephritis and Bright's disease).
Seventeen deaths were caused by influenza during
1928 whereas 47 were due to this cause in 1927. Eleven
of the deaths from influenza in 1928 were of persons
over 65, and five occurred in persons between 45 and 65
years of age.
Infantile Mortality.
Of 1780 deaths of persons of all ages in Fulham
during 1928, one hundred and eighty five or 10.4 per
cent., occurred in infants under one year of age.
The infantile mortality rate (the number of deaths
of infants under one year per 1,000 births) was 77 per
1,000 in 1928 compared with 66 per 1,000 in 1927. The
actual number of infants deaths was 185 in 1928 compared
with 162 in 1927.
The infantile mortality rate for England and Wales
was 65 and for London 67.