io 4 THOMPSON YATES LABORATORIES REPORT 
TABLE IV 
District 
Popula- 
tion per 
acre, 
1 898 
Death 
from Tuberculosis — Percentage 
of all Deaths 
of these 
1895 
1896 
1897 
1898 
Scotland 
I28.O 
9-5 
1 1-3 
10.3 
9.1 
IO.O 
Exchange 
89.O 
12.9 
14.0 
1 1.2 
1 1 .2 
12.3 
Abercromby 
75-i 
I I.I 
12.6 
1 1.4 
10.7 
II.4 
Everton 
1 00.4 
9.2 
ti.o 
9.4 
1 1.2 
10.2 
Kirkdale 
102.8 
1 0.0 
9.0 
10.2 
IO.I 
West Derby 
125.3 
12.8 
13.0 
12.5 
9-i 
II.9 
Toxteth 
124.6 
8.8 
10.4 
9-7 
9.1 
9-5 
Walton... 
29.8 
11. 8 
"•3 
10.9 
10.3 
1 1.1 
West Derby (rural) 
14.0 
1 0.0 
10.8 
9.4 
9-5 
9.9 
Wavertree 
9.8 
1 5-5 
10.2 
9-3 
9.4 
Toxteth (rural) 
25.2 
10.9 
1 2.7 
8.9 
12.3 
1 1.2 
Percentage for the whole city for the four years 10.93. 
With an average throughout the city for the four years of 10.93 deaths in each 
100, it is seen that of the 5 Wards with the greatest population, each having over 100 
to the acre, 4 fall below the average ; while of 4 Wards with the least number to the 
acre, a population of from 9.8 to 29.8 per acre, 3 are above the average. 
This is, perhaps, only a coincidence, and should not carry much weight in 
localizing Tuberculosis in one district rather thin another, but it is certainly interesting. 
However, it is remarkable that throughout the city, with Wards varying 
in density of population, and in the general attention paid to personal and general 
household hygiene, the number of deaths in every 100 due to Tuberculosis should be 
so uniform — all lying between 9.5 and 12.3. Although in individual years it has 
varied more than this, as in 1895, fr° m 8.5 in Toxteth to 15.5 in Wavertree. In 
1896 the rate was generally high, the lowest rate being 10.0 and the highest 14.0; 
while in 1898 the rate was generally low, with the exception of 1 Ward, and only 3 
Wards had a mortality greater than 10.7. 
The great number of deaths each year reported as due to Bronchitis makes it 
doubtful if these figures are to be entirely relied upon. Were these cases of Bronchitis 
more carefully diagnosed it is very probable many of them would be cases of Pulmonary 
Tuberculosis. In 1898 there were 402 more deaths from Bronchitis than from 
Phthisis and Tuberculosis; there being 1,808 from the former, and 1,406 from the 
latter. Of these cases, there occurred in the various institutions 534 cases of Phthisis 
