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disease is so fatal, their constitutions, already debilitated, speedily
make them fall victims to it.
Also the extremes of age, the very young and old, succumb principally
to this disease, as will appear by the following table, viz.:—
Out of 260 deaths—
88 died before they were 5 years of age.
6 „ between 5 „ and 20
9 „ „ 20 „ „ 40
56 „ „ 40 „ „ 60
95 „ „ 60 „ „ 80
6 „ „ 80 „ „ upwards.
Total 260
Deaths from Tubercular Diseases.
Consumption is the next heaviest in the death list, and during
the year 115 died from phthisis pulmonalis (the tubercular disease
chiefly affecting the adult) and 25 from tabes mesenterica (the
tubercular disease of the infant), together 140. The heavy deathrate
from tubercular complaints, like those from diseases attacking
the respiratory organs, occurred to inhabitants of the squalid neighbourhoods.
Inquests.
There were 88 Inquests held on persons who died from natural,
accidental, or wilful causes during the year.
It is deplorable so often to find the clause "death accelerated
from drinking habits " in the verdicts of the Coroner's Juries.