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variety, would be more correctly placed amongst the specific infectious
diseases. In the Registrar General's manual such causes of death as
"fibroid phthisis," "grinder's phthisis," are now classed amongst "other
respiratory diseases."
Table III (old table IV) for 1912 is in the form according with the
"Manual of Causes of Death," adopted by the Registrar General for use
in England and Wales from the International List. I received the Manual
on January 20th, 1912. In response to an enquiry from me in June
it was stated that deaths from bronchitis should be included under the
double heading 89 and 90B, as in the adaptation, the headings of 89,
Acute Bronchitis, and 90, Chronic Bronchitis, had been combined.
Cancer. Fifty-one deaths of persons belonging to the district
were registered as being due to cancer, and this is equivalent to a deathrate
of 0.78. The deaths during 1911-10-9 were 55, 33, and 54; up to
1905 non-residents were included. In the table below, the deaths from
cancer among residents only have been included, and the 51 deaths thus
collected have been analysed according to the nature and position of the
disease:—

a Cancer of Liver and Stomach.
b Secondary in Lungs.
c Prostatectomy 7 months before death.
d Carcinoma of Liver and Pancreas.
e Carcinoma of sigmoid, colotomy 5 hours before death.
f Secondary in liver.