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Eighty-six deaths were referred to old age, 37 to
Premature birth and 8 to Congenital Malformations.
From various forms of diseases of the Digestive
system there were 103 deaths, or 6.1 per cent of
the whole. Thirty-eight deaths arose from teething,
and 14 from diseases of the liver.
The deaths from diseases of the Kidney numbered
34, which is a considerable increase over
the number of deaths from this cause in previous
years. Three deaths were recorded from Diabetes,
13 from child birth, and the large number of 98
from Atrophy, Debility, Inanition, Asthenia,
Marasmus, and Exhaustion. This ill defined and
unsatisfactory class is almost exclusively limited to
deaths of infants.
"Sunstroke" is assigned as the cause of death
in one case, and "Exhaustion from the effects of
the hot weather," in another. Among the deaths
arising from violent causes there were 7 cases of
fractures and contusions, 2 of burns, 5 of drowning,
and 11 of accidental asphyxia.
Six deaths from Suicide were double the number
in the previous year. They were Gun-shot 1,
Cut-throat 2, Poison 2, and Drowning 1.
The total number of inquests was 101, being
rather more than 5 per cent of the total deaths.
The uncertified deaths were 31 being in the
proportion of 1.8 per cent. The proportion in
London was 1.2 per cent.
STATISTICS OF LONDON.
The population at the middle of the year 1886
was 4,149,533 persons, of whom 1,954.346 were