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Parish of Clapham.
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tubercular diseases are favoured by general insanitary
conditions such as dampness and overcrowding. The
above table shows a progressive fall since 1892.
Diseases of the Nervous System also show a fall, the
deaths—72 in number, being 10 below the average.
Those from Diseases of the Circulatory System were about
the average number.
Diseases of the Respiratory System numbered 146, and
were 16 above the corrected average. The greatest mortality
from this cause was in the latter part of the first
quarter of the year, at the time when Influenza was
epidemic. There was very possibly a causal relation
between them, and also the climatic conditions were such
as to produce excesss of both diseases.
Diseases of the Digestive System numbered 22 and
were 17 below the average.
Premature Birth and Low Vitality was the cause of
53 deaths of infants, exactly the average number.
Deaths from Old Age were 26—one below the
average, but deaths of very old people are at one time
attributed to old age, and at another to heart failure
or lung disease, and therefore figures under this head are
of no value.
Violence resulted in 13 deaths, three below the
average.
The three groups of disease that produced the excess
of deaths in 1895 over those of 1894 were Influenza,
Diarrhœa and Respiratory Diseases. Generally under all
other heads there was a diminution.
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