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Class V.—Developmental Diseases.
In this Class the total deaths were 175; viz., 138 in the
Town sub-district, and 37 in Brompton. Premature Birth
was the assigned cause of 71 deaths, 18 of them in the
Brompton sub-district ; Atelectasis of 7, all of them in the
Town sub-district ; and Congenital Malformation of 5. Old
Age was the registered cause of 92 deaths, all but one of
them at ages over sixty-five : between sixty-five and seventyfive
there were 15 deaths so classified; 48 between seventyfive
and eighty-five, and 28 at eighty-five and upwards.
Class VI.—Local Diseases.
The diseases in this Class, comprising eleven Orders
named after the systems or organs to which the diseases
relate, were accountable for 1,481 deaths, or 50.8 per cent, of
the deaths from all causes: 1,157 were registered in the Town
sub-district, and 324 in Brompton : 374 were of children under
five years of age. These totals tally pretty closely with
those recorded in 1892, but they are considerably below the
numbers recorded in 1891, when the deaths from local
diseases were 1,690. The deaths from the disease comprised
in the several orders were as follows :—
1. Nervous System.—Diseases of the nervous system
were the registered causes of 305 deaths (against 321, 327,
and 293, in the preceding three years respectively) viz., 231 in
the Town sub-district, and 74 in Brompton : 91 of the deaths
were of children under five years of age, and 170 occurred
at ages over 45. The quarterly numbers were 84, 69, 70,
and 82. The fatal diseases were Inflammation of Brain or
Membranes,47 deaths; Apoplexy, Softening of Brain, Hemiplegia,
Brain Paralysis, 138 deaths (101 in the Town sub-district, 37
in Brompton); Insanity, General Paralysis of the Insane, 12,
all in the Town sub-district; Epilepsy, 14; Convulsions, 52
(all under five, and 47 under one year) ; laryngismus