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It will be seen that Sunday and Thursday show the largest
number, and whether there is any connection in the circumstance
that those mornings follow the night of "Early Closing" on
Wednesday and the general half-holiday on Saturday is open
to suspicion.
Ages at Death
Of the two thousand nine hundred and fifty-one deaths
recorded during the year, eight hundred and twenty-six were
of children under one year of age, three hundred and thirteen
between one and five years, one hundred and three between
five and fifteen years, one hundred and six between fifteen and
twenty-five, nine hundred and ninety-five between twenty-five
and sixty-five, and six hundred and eight were sixty-five years
of age and upwards.
Infantile Mortality.
Premature birth, low vitality, and congenital defects of
necessity contribute more or less to infantile mortality, and of
the eight hundred and twenty-six deaths recorded among children
under one year of age, two hundred and fifty-one were actually
due to these causes. The diseases which principally contributed
to the remainder of the infantile mortality were Diarrhoea,
from which one hundred and twenty-six deaths occurred ;
Bronchitis, eighty-four ; Pneumonia, fifty-nine ; Whooping
Cough, fifty-four ; Tubercular Disease, thirty-nine; and Measles,
twenty-three. The mortality at this period of life was equal to
one hundred and sixty per thousand of the birth registered
during the year. This shows a slight reduction upon the
previous year and is exactly equal to the average of the last
ten years.