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Total Deaths from all causes, including all deaths in
the Injirmary :
1872 1873 1874 1875
644 674 686 857
The Death-rates per 1000, excluding Infirmary deaths
and its population:—
1872 1873 1874 1875
17.0 17.6 17.2 20.2
Inquests.—During the year 42 Coroner's Inquests
were held, viz.:—on 27 males and 15 females, this being
an increase on the previous year of 16, and is owing to
the large number of sudden deaths which took place in
the earlier months of the year, The verdicts returned
were as under:—
From Natural Causes 26
Accidental Causes 8
Suicide 7
Fractured Skull 1
The natural causes of death were principally from
Heart Disease, sudden Syncope, Fits and Spasm of the
Glottis, Of the accidental causes 5 were on the railways,
2 by burning, and 1 concussion of the brain. Of the
suicides 1 cut throat, 1 by hanging, 1 on the railway, and
4 by drowning; these suicides were all mentally deranged.
Social Position.—The proportion of deaths in relation
to Social Position was as follows :—
Nobility and Gentry 2-68
Professional 1.62
Middle and Trading 12.70
Industrial 83.
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