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rous in the warm summer and autumn weather, 84 having been
registered in the second and third quarters, and only 23 in the
other quarters.
Simple Cholera,-Five deaths were registered under this head, 3
in the Town sub-district and 2 in Brompton.
Other Zymotic Diseases.-Croup was the cause of 22 deaths,
all under 15 years of age, eleven of them between 1 and 5 : sixteen
in the Town sub-district and 6 in Brompton.
Quinsy caused two deaths, one in each district, and between the
ages of 25 and 45.
Erysipelas was the cause of 22 deaths, 17 and 5 in the Town and
Brompton sub-districts respectively: eight of the deaths took
place under 5 years of age.
Puerperal Fever (Metria) was the registered cause of 13 deaths
(of which 11 were in the Town district), viz., between 15 and 25
years of age, 4 deaths : between 25 and 35, 5 ; and between 35
and 45, 4. Besides these deaths other 11 (8 of which were in the
Town district) were registered from Childbirth (7 between 25 and
35, and 4 between 35 and 45)), i.e., from ordinary diseases incident
to the puerperal condition, or from, accidents, such as hemorrhage,
etc., and not from disease of a specific or infectious character.
The total deaths registered as occasioned by or occurring in childbed
were equal to 5 per cent, on the registered births.
Rheumatism caused 26 deaths, 18 in the Town and 8 in the
Brompton district-only one death occurring under five years of
age. The majority of the deaths under this head were immediately
due to heart disease occurring in the course of the malady—
a much dreaded complication in all severe cases, especially in
rheumatic fever.
Enthetic Diseases.-Syphilis was returned in 14 cases, two
only of which were in Brompton : eleven of the victims were children
under five years of age, all but two of them in the first year of life
Dietic Diseases.—No death was registered from any disease
in this order excepting Alcoholism (euphemistically so called) which
caused only five deaths as registered, all from delirium tremens.
If the whole truth were known, probably it would appear that the
immoderate use of alcoholic stimulants is responsible directly or indirectly
for as large an amount of sickness and premature death
as of vice and crime. Drink fills our hospitals, our prisons, our
workhouses, and —our national exchequer !
Parasitic Diseases.-Ten deaths were caused by Thrush, all
in the first year of life : seven in the Town sub-district, and 3 in
Brompton.
CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.
The deaths from the diseases in this great class, which includes two
orders, were 609, viz., 477 in the Town sub-district, and 132 in
Brompton,