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Deaths of residents occurring in public institutions are allotted to the respective sub-districts
according to the addresses of the deceased as given by the registrars.
The subjoined table, being a summary of Table VIII. in Appendix I., page 122 (Table III.
in annual reports prior to 1900), shows the number of deaths from diseases comprised in the " New
List of Causes of Death," as used in the Annual Reports of the Registrar-General for England and
Wales, referred to in the following pages; to which I have added the deaths from violence, and
certain diseases comprised in the old classification under the heading Ill-defined and Not Specified
Causes, e.g., Debility, Atrophy, Inanition, terms which find no place in the New List.
No. of Deaths
GENERAL DISEASES 1,114
LOCAL DI8EASES—
Diseases of Nervous System 114
Diseases of Organs of Special Sense 9
Diseases of Heart 220
Diseases of Blood-vessels 138
Diseases of Respiratory Organs 458
Diseases of Digestive System 154
Diseases of Lymphatic System 4
Diseases of Urinary System106
Diseases of Generative System 7
Accidents of Childbirth 9
Diseases of Locomotive System 6
Diseases of Integumentary System 4
1,229
DEATHS FROM VIOLENCE—
Accident or Negligence 79
Homicide —
Suicide 21
100
ILL-DEFINED AND NOT SPECIFIED CAUSES54
Total 2,497
GENERAL DISEASES.
The Deaths from the " Principal diseases of the Zymotic Class " were 278, and 30 below the
corrected decennial average (308). These deaths, of which 253 belong to the Town sub-district
and 25 to Brompton, were equivalent to T55 per 1,000 persons living (1.94 in the Town sub-district
and 0.51 in Brompton) as compared with 1.38 in 1905 ; the decennial average being 1.72.
The rate in the Metropolis, as a whole, was 1.93 per 1,000 (1.71 in 1905); the decennial
average being 2.31.