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Premature birth was assigned as the cause of 47
deaths of infants, being 19 less than that of the
previous year. Four children died from congenital
malformations, and 77 persons from old age, 22 of
the latter dying in infirmaries outside the parish.
Disease of the brain and nervous system caused
78 deaths in the parish and 41 in the hospitals.
There were 48 deaths from apoplexy and 17 from
paralysis. From convulsions there were 32 deaths
against 66 in the previous year.
From diseases of the heart and circulatory organs
there were 70 deaths in the parish and 32 outside.
Disease of the respiratory system contribute very
largely to the general mortality. They caused 414
deaths in the parish and 54 in the hospitals. No
less than 256 were referred to pneumonia and 176
to bronchitis. There were 14 deaths from laryngitis
or croup.
Diseases of the digestive organs caused 48 deaths,
those of the liver 19, and kidney diseases 20. There
were 3 deaths from diabetes. Five women died from
childbirth.
In the large class of general diseases which are
principally due to debility from birth and the