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Causes of Death.— In 7 cases Diarrhoea ; in 4 cases Whooping cough and in 2 cases Measles.
The birth-rate was the highest—the general death-rate, and the Infantile mortality-rate, save
one, the lowest yet recorded. The Zymotic death-rate was, with one exception (3·0 in 1899), lower
than in either of the seven preceding years. There was no death from scarlet fever, diphtheria, or
typhoid fever.
Among the principal causes of death were—diseases of the nervous system, 5 deaths;
diseases of the respiratory system, 45 deaths; diseases of the circulatory system, 7 deaths; other
visceral diseases, 10 deaths; tubercular diseases, 43 deaths (including 34 from consumption);
wasting diseases of infants, 8 deaths; cancer, 6 deaths; syphilis, 5 deaths; and violence, 9 deaths,
including 5 of infants from suffocation. Four deaths of infants prematurely born were registered,
and 4 deaths from old age. Inquests were held in 16 cases.
The annual death-rate per 1,000 persons living, in thirteen successive four-weekly periods,
was:—
(1) 58·5 (2) 45·5 (8) 22·7 (4) 45·5 (5) 39·0 (6) 29·2 (7) 39·0
(8) 35·7 (9) 39·0 (10) 39·0 (11) 45·5 (12) 48·7 (18) 29·2
Fifty-six of the deaths occurred at the homes of the deceased persons, 89 at the Borough
Infirmary (a fifth of the total deaths at this Institution—445), and 14 at other Public Institutions;
34 of the deaths were of persons who had previously resided at common lodging-houses in the
Area; but only one of these deaths took place at a common lodging-house.
The deaths comprised 65 of males and 94 of females.
The ages at death were; under five years of age, 66 (including 46 under one year); between
5 and 20 years, 4 deaths; between 20 and 60 years, 63 deaths; at 60 years and upwards, 26 deaths.
The deaths were connected with streets as follows: Bangor Street, 47 deaths; Crescent
Street, 34 deaths; St. Katharine's Road, 40 deaths; Kenley Street, 18 deaths; Sirdar Road, 20
deaths.