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Of the deaths attributed to cancer 45 were of males and 63 females; 11 were of
persons under 45 years, 57 were aged from 45 to 65 years, and the remaining 40 were
of persons aged 65 years and upwards, 14 being over 75 years but under 85 years.
In addition some 16 deaths were given as the result of malignant diseases and sarcoma.
Doubtless some deaths due to cancer are included amongst those attributed to malignant
disease. The death-rate due to cancer was 1.0 as compared with 0.82 in 1922,
0.87 in 1921, 0.91 in 1920, 0.93 in 1919, 0.95 in 1918, and 1.1 in 1917. Eleven persons,
8 of them males, died from appendicitis, and 1 person, a male, died from peritonitis.
No deaths were attributed to alcoholism, but there were 3 deaths, all of males,
from cirrhosis of the liver.
Of the deaths from violence, 37 were of males and 18 females. They were again
below the average. Through accident or negligence 29 males and 15 females lost
their lives. These included 9 from street accidents, 5 from burns and scalds and
15 through falls, mostly amongst old people. There was 1 case of homicide, and 11
persons, 8 of them males, committed suicide. Two infants were suffocated in bed.
The decrease in the mortality from this cause has been commented upon in previous
reports. It has been a characteristic of the years since 1915; and when the average
mortality from this cause during the past five years, which is less than 3, is contrasted
with the average for the five years 1893 to 1897, which is a little over 30, the result
so far as this particular cause of death is concerned cannot be regarded as other than
highly satisfactory.
DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.

Elsewhere than in public institutions 8 persons not belonging to Shoreditch
died within the Borough.