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OTHER DISEASES.
Alcoholism. One death from this cause was recorded—a male in Church
Street ward. The death returns of this disease, as in the instance of venereal
diseases, are most deceptive. The number (male and female) can be considerably
added to by looking back into the life-history of some of the cases certified as
dying from cirrhosis of the liver, ascites, neuritis, etc., etc.
Respiratory Diseases, including bronchitis, pneumonia, pleurisy, and
other non-tuberculous diseases of the respiratory system, gave rise to 26 more
deaths than in 1912. The figures are 140, giving a death-rate of 2.10 per 1000,
compared with 114 and a death-rate of 1.75 for the latter year. Pneumonia,
especially of the lobar 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 1913 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.
Cancer. Forty-eight deaths of persons belonging to the district were
registered as being due to cancer, and this is equivalent to a death-rate of 0.72.
The deaths during 1912-11-10 were 51, 55 and 33. In the table below, the
deaths from cancer among residents only have been included, and the 48 deaths
thus collected have been analysed according to the nature and position of the
disease:—