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Purpura (Hemorrhagic Diathesis) was the cause of one
death ; Anœmia and Leucocythœmia, of 2 ; Glycosuria, Diabetes
Mellitus, of 15 ; and Other Constitutional Diseases, of 6.
Tubercular diseases were the registered causes of
319 deaths (as compared with 318, 340, and 333, in the three
preceding years respectively); viz., 276 in the Town subdistrict,
and 43 in Brompton: 71 of the deaths were of children
under five years of age. In a few instances Phthisis was
returned as the cause of death in infancy, a period of life at
which the tubercular diathesis commonly manifests itself in
other parts of the body than the lungs, eg., the brain,
bowels, &c. Such deaths have been classified in Table III.
(appendix) with those ascribed to "Other forms of Tuberculosis,
Scrofula" the total being 47 (of which 23 occurred under
five years of age) including 39 registered in the Town subdistrict.
Tabes Mesenterica, popularly known as consumption
of the bowels, was the cause of 14 deaths (12 of them in the
Town sub-district); all of them under five years of age, and
10 under one year. Tubercular Meningitis and Hydrocephalus
(water on the brain) were the causes of 37 deaths; 5 only of
them in Brompton, and 32 under five years of age. Phthisis,
popularly known as decline or consumption, was the cause of
221 deaths; 2 under five years of age, 1 between five and
fifteen years of age, and 206 between fifteen and sixty-five:
viz., 18, 63, 55, 50, and 20, in the five decennial periods consecutively:
12 deaths were registered at ages over 65. Of
the total deaths, 193 belong to the Town sub-district, and 28
to Brompton. The deaths from tubercular diseases were, proportionally
to population, not nearly so numerous in Brompton
as in the Town sub-district.*
* Under the heading "The Prevention of Consumption," further information on
the subject of Tuberculosis will be found in a later portion of this report.