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sions, and 3 from epilepsy. Heart diseases proved fatal to 63
and diseases of the digestive organs to 51 persons, which latter
class includes 4 from dentition, 9 from enteritis, 8 from
peritonitis, and 16 from diseases of the liver, together with
those caused by habits of intemperance.
Constitutional Diseases caused 166 deaths, including 50
from cancer (an increase of five on the preceding year), 65
from consumption (non-parishioners excluded), 14 from
tubercular meningitis, 5 from rheumatism and gout, and 8
from diabetes mellitus.
In the class of developmental diseases premature birth was
the cause of 35 deaths, debility, atrophy and inanition of 16,
whilst the deaths attributed to old age were 34, the deaths
of aged people being frequently referred to other causes, such
as bronchitis, &c.
Inquests.—The number of inquests held was 69, an excess
of 19 over last year, the deaths in 46 cases being caused by
violence. Among the latter are included 2 cases of infanticide,
15 deaths from fractures, falls, and contusions, 5 from
burns and scalds, and 3 from suffocation in bed with mother.
Among the remarkable deaths from violence may be noticed
the death a child aged 5 months by asphyxia by hanging,
caused by the infant becoming suspended by the neck between
the side and bottom of its cot; the death of two men, within
a few weeks of each other, by breaking the neck, caused in
each case by a fall down area steps, and the death of a boy
aged 14, by being run over by a truck which he was drawing
down Arkwright Road. The deaths by suicide were
14, or twice as many as in the preceding year, the means
adopted being by drowning, 7; by gunshot wounds, 4 ; by
wounds, 2; and by poison (carbolic acid), 1.