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Ages at Death.—The deaths of 259 infants and young
children between birth and ten years of age it appears
occurred in this Sub-district during the year, and it is
further shown in the mortality tables that 8 young persons
from 10 to 20 succumbed in the same period, whilst the
deaths of those from 20 to 40 numbered 45, from 40 to 60
77, and from 60 to 80, 66.
The deaths of persons above 80 were 27, of which 11
were registered as having died from disease or accident,
and the remaining 17 of pure old age, without the mention
of any other cause or causes tending to shorten life. The
oldest person dying in the last year had reached his 91 st year.
Disease and Mortality amongst the Union Poor.—Table
V., Appendix, sets forth the number of deaths amongst this
class of persons to have been 61, and that these took place
as the result of 972 cases of sickness, accident, &c., treated
during the year by the District Union Medical Officer.
Both the number of cases treated and the number which
proved fatal, as will be seen, compare favourably with the
record of 1871, which gives the deaths of Union patients
from all causes as 76, and the cases treated 1489.
Violent, Sudden and Uncertified Deaths, Inquests, &c.—
During the past year there were held in this parish nine
Coroner's Inquests, upon the remains of four infants and
five adults, who had died under circumstances which
appeared to necessitate inquiries as to the causes of death;
of these latter cases, two persons, aged respectively 23 and
62 years, were decided to have died of Apoplexy; one, aged
55, of Disease of the Brain ; and one, aged 48, of the effects
of an accident. In the cases of the four infants, whose
ages ranged from birth to seventeen months, the verdicts
returned were respectively: "still born," "found dead,"
"found drowned,'' and "accidently scalded."