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Seven persons (3 males and 4 females) died in the
Parish from chronic alcoholic poisoning. Many
deaths which are registered as due to diseases of
the brain, heart, liver, and kidneys, are unquestionably
due to the intemperate use of alcoholic
stimulants.
Rheumatism and rheumatic fever accounted for
9 deaths, 37 persons died from cancer (10 males and
27 females), besides 16 in hospitals.
In the tubercular order of diseases there were 236
deaths, of which 20 were referred to tabes mesenterica,
49 to meningitis, 126 to phthisis, and 37 to
tuberculosis.
The hospital cases include 55 deaths from phthisis
and 9 from tuberculosis.
Premature birth was assigned as the cause of 66
deaths of infants, being a large increase of the
number of the previous year, which was 46.
Only 48 persons are said to have died simply
from natural decay, but there were 30 more in
infirmaries outside the Parish.
From disease of the brain and nervous system
115 deaths occurred, of which 31 were due to
apoplexy, 15 to paralysis, 3 to epilepsy, and 66 to
convulsions. In the hospitals there were 18 deaths
from disease of the brain and nervous system,
including 2 from disease of the internal ear.
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