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the total deaths, and 1.5 of the general death-rate.
From apoplexy and paralysis there were 53 deaths,
and from convulsions 59.
Diseases of the heart and circulatory organs
caused 75 deaths, being the same number as in
1891. They were 4.9 per cent. of the deaths from
all causes, and equal to a death-rate of 0.88.
To diseases of the stomach, liver and digestive
organs 78 deaths were referred, being 5 per cent.
of all deaths.
From diseases of kidney and urinary organs there
were 28 deaths.
Six women died in child-birth, but to this number
must be added four deaths ascribed to puerperal
fever.
In the large class of ill-defined diseases or those
of uncertain seat, 25 were attributed to marasmus,
six to atrophy, 25 to debility, and 17 to inanition.
Premature birth was assigned as the cause of
46 deaths, and old age of 59.
From violent causes there were 53 deaths in the
Parish, including 30 from accidental suffocation of
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