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Birth 26, Digestive Organs 23, Old Age 22, Violence 15,
Cancer 10, Syphilis 6, Diseases of Kidneys 6, Joints and
Bones 4, Uterus 2, and Generative Organs 1, making in
all 552. There is a decrease on the previous year of 5
under Respiratory Diseases, and an increase of 7 and 13
under Tubercular maladies, and Diseases of the Brain and
Nerves respectively. In these latter forms of disease
Infant Mortality takes a conspicuous place, nearly half the
total deaths having been children under 5 years of age.
Disease of the Respiratory Organs were most fatal up to
5 years, and then from 20 to 80 and upwards. Phthisis
was fatal in 41 cases between 20 and 40 years, and in 16
from 40 to 60, just the same periods at which it was most
fatal in 1873. Of the 111 deaths from Diseases of the
Nervous System, 54 occurred to children under 5 years of
age, being principally from Convulsions, and 54 were of
persons from 20 years and upwards, Paralysis being the
chief cause registered. From pure Old Age 23 deaths
were recorded, being 29 less than those in the previous
year.