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brain must precede the "stroke," and such cases
ought, therefore, to be classed under diseases of the
organs of circulation. Custom is, however, stronger
than scientific nomenclature in this respect, and so
the inexact description persists. From the various
conditions implied by the term there died during
the year 105 persons—47 males, and 58 females.
The average annual number of deaths from this
cause was approximately 102 during the ten years
1885-94, 111 during 1885-89, and 92 during 1890-94.
Insanity, general paralysis of the insane.—The
deaths registered under these headings by no means
correspond with the numbers of persons removed to
asylums, inasmuch as the larger proportion of
deaths therein are certified as due to other diseases.
The number of deaths of parishioners in such of
the asylums as are in or near London will be found
on page 89. The deaths classed under "insanity"
numbered last year 23, compared with a corrected
annual average of 11 (approximately).
Bronchitis and pneumonia.— It will be well,
owing to some change in the mode of classification,
to take these two causes together, but their averages
will be set out separately. There were 305 deaths
due to the former disease, and 115 due to the latter,
420 in all, equal to a rate of 3.42 per 1,000. Of
these deaths 236, viz., 186 of bronchitis, and 50 of
pneumonia, occurred in the first quarter of the year,
the corrected annual average for the quarter being