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since felt it to be my duty to warn nurses, and all other women
concerned with these painful cases, of the responsibility they
incur by attending parturient women until after a period of
three or four weeks, and disinfection of their persons, clothing,
&c. This course was adopted in respect of the cases notified
in 1895 with satisfactory results, there having been no spread
of the disease.
Class II.—Parasitic Diseases.
The only deaths from the diseases in this Order were two
from Thrush.
Class III.—Dietetic Diseases
Were the causes of 14 deaths, ten of them in the Town sub-
district.To Want of Breast Milk, Starvation, three deaths
were classified. Delirium Tremens was the cause of three
deaths, against 7, 3, and 2, in the preceding three years
respectively; Chronic Alcoholism of eight deaths, against 7
18, and 8. Of these deaths 8 occurred in the Town sub-
district.It is scarcely necessary, perhaps, to remark that if all
the deaths due, directly or indirectly, to the immoderate use of
intoxicating liquors, could be ascertained, " Alcoholism " would
occupy a more prominent position in the " Bills of Mortality";
but many deaths due to the misuse of alcohol get certified, and
therefore are classified, to visceral and degenerative diseases
caused or aggravated by drink.
Class IV.—Constitutional Diseases.
This important Class comprises the causes of 532 deaths
(equal to 19.3 per cent, of total deaths), including 07 of children
under the age of five years : 417 of the deaths were registered
in the Town sub-district, and 115 in Brompton.
Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatism of the Heart caused 9
deaths, 8 of them in the Town sub-district; Rheumatism, 3
deaths. Gout was the cause of 2 deaths in the Brompton sub-
district,and Rickets of 2 five of them in the Town sub-district,