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Urinary System. Forty-one deaths, equal to a rate
of 0.36 per 1,000, occurred from diseases affecting
this system. Twenty-nine were from Bright's Disease, 1
from Acute Nephritis, 8 from diseases of the Bladder and
Prostate, and 3 from other and ill-defined diseases of the
urinary system.
Reproductive System. Diseases of the generative
organs were the cause of 4 deaths. There were 4 deaths
attributed to diseases of Parturition.
Bones and Joints. There were 4 deaths from diseases
of bones and joints.
Integumentary System. There were no diseases of
this class.
External Causes. There were 37 deaths given as
due to causes grouped under this heading; 31 were the
result of accident or negligence, and the remaining 6
were from Suicide.
Suffocation, by being overlaid in bed, was the cause
of death of 3 children under five years of age; 2 cases
were from drowning, while accidents on railways, in
vehicular traffic and in building operations and falls,
etc., were responsible for 32 deaths.
The Suicides were by hanging in 2 cases, 2 by poison,
and 1 each by cut or stab, and, by precipitation from
elevated places.
No death has been left so insufficiently described as to
need classification under the ill-defined causes heading,
and this is a most satisfactory feature.
MORTUARY.
The number of bodies dealt with in the Mortuary since
1896 is shewn below: —