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In the large class of ill-defined diseases, or those
of uncertain seat, there were 30 deaths ascribed to
marasmus, 20 to debility, and 19 to inanition. All
these were children under 5 years of age.
Six deaths were registered as due to "natural
causes."
In the class of deaths arising from violence there
were 12 from accidental fractures and contusions,
18 to accidental suffocation of infants in bed, 2 to
suffocation by impaction of food in the throat, and
7 cases of suicide. Of the latter, 4 were by hanging,
1 by gunshot, 1 by drowning, and 1 by cut
wound. All were males; one was a youth of 19
years of age.
The inquest cases numbered 98, being 5.9 per
cent. of the deaths. They included 41 deaths from
violence, 47 from diseases of the brain, 15 from
those of the heart, 9 from diseases of the respiratory
organs, and 6 from those of the digestive
system.
The number of deaths not certified by any
registered medical practitioner, or by the coroner,
was 22, being in the proportion of 1.3 per cent. of the
deaths, against 3.1 per cent. in the previous year.
The proportion in London was 0.9 per cent.
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
During the year 922 certificates have been received
under the Notification of Infectious Diseases