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other Diseases Reference to Table V. will shew the
of the Non- incidence of these diseases during 1885 and
Zymotic Class.
the preceding nine years, it will be seen that
they do not differ much in numbers from year to year,
slowly rising with the increase of population, but not
keeping pace with such increase, the population having
doubled in the period, and these diseases only having
increased some 20 percent.
Diseases of the Respiratory Organs as usual head the
list with respect to numbers. These do not include
Consumption which is grouped with Tubercular diseases.
The former diseases included 303 deaths and the latter
181, together 484, or 45 per cent of the total mortality.
Diseases of the nervous system including Brain disease
caused 104 deaths, of the Circulatory including Heart
disease 51, and from Premature Birth and Low Vitality
82 deaths. All these were below the average, the
increased population being taken into account.