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Deaths from all Causes During the Year 1896.
Under 5 Years. Over 5 Years.
Measles 3 o
Diphtheria 3 1
Whooping Cough 4 o
Diarrhœa 2 o
Cancer o 4
Tubercular Meningitis 2 o
Phthisis (Consumption) o 4
Disease of Nervous System 4 1
Convulsions 4 o
Heart Disease 1 11
Bronchitis 5 6
Disease of Stomach o 1
Disease of Kidney o 4
Premature Birth 4 o
Old Age o 4
Accident 1 o
Pneumonia o 1
Apoplexy o 2
33 39
Two hundred and sixteen deaths were registered in the
Colney Hatch Asylum during the year—126 males, 90 females;
these deaths were equal to a rate of 75 per 1,000 of the population
living in the Asylum at all ages. The causes of deaths in the
Asylum were the following:—
Exhaustion from General Paralysis 40
Exhaustion from Mania, Dementia or Melancholia 10
Exhaustion from Epilepsy 17
Phthisis 19
Pneumonia 1
Cancer 1
Various Diseases 29
216
Infantile Mortality.
The rate of Infantile Mortality, or annual number of deaths of
infants under one year of age to every thousand births registered in
the year was
1896 84 1893 114 1890 108
1895 117 1892 78 1889 132
1894 140 1891 105 1888 120