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to apoplexy and paralysis, 4 to epilepsy, 42 to convulsion,
4 to dementia, 29 to various forms of brain disease,
and 2 to disease of the internal ear.
From diseases of the heart and circulatory system 131
deaths were registered, or 8.5 per cent, of the total deaths,
and equal to a death-rate of 1.5 per 1,000. The number is
9 less than in 1897.
The important division of diseases of the respiratory
organs accounted for 336 deaths, or 18.9 per cent, of the
deaths, and a death-rate of 3.8. In the previous year the
deaths were 376, the percentage of deaths 20, and the
rate 4.3.
There were 10 deaths from croup, 188 from bronchitis,
123 from pneumonia, 3 from pleurisy, 5 from asthma, and
7 from congestion or other lung diseases.
Diseases of the digestive organs contributed 80 deaths
to the general mortality. This class includes a number of
disorders, as dentition, quinsy, gastritis, enteritis, peritonitis,
hernia, and liver disease, etc. Prom diseases of
the liver there were 14 deaths, and from infantile jaundice
3. From diseases of the kidney and urinary organs there
were 45 deaths. Five persons died from diabetes. The
various forms of wasting disease in young children caused
87 deaths.
From violence there were 85 deaths, of which 67 were
the result of accident, 9 of suicide, and 9 were persons