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RESPIRATORY DISEASES.
The deaths from diseases of the respiratory organs, exclusive of
phthisis, numbered 695, and formed 25 per cent, of the total mortality
from all causes. This is equal to a rate of 5.3 per 1,000 population
at all ages. A large proportion (323) of the respiratory deaths
was amongst young children, a mortality of 18.2 on the estimated
population of under five.
MALIGNANT DISEASE.
Cancers of various organs and parts of the body caused 108
deaths. Malignant disease rarely affects young people, and 104 of
the deaths recorded from it last year were amongst adults aged at
least 25 years and upwards. The estimated number of persons over
25 in Bethnal Green is 56,700; on this number we shew a cancer
mortality of 1.8 per 1,000.
UNCOMMON CAUSES OF DEATH.
The registered cause of death of an infant aged 21 months, the
male child of a tailor, was entered as colic, varicella and convulsions.
A child aged six months died from acute tuberculosis following
small pox.
The infant son of a cabinet maker died six days after birth from
tetanus.
A horsehair dresser, aged 22, also died from tetanus, said in this
instance to be due to the irritation caused by decayed teeth.
An old lady died in the infirmary on December 29th last, from
senile decay and heart failure, her age was stated to be 100 years;
previously to her removal she resided in Duke Street.
Amongst the accidental deaths are registered those of the victims
of the Hackney Road Fire, from burns and suffocation ; two were
males aged 24 and 5, and five females aged 26, 8, 3, 3 months and
26 years.
SUICIDES.
These numbered 20 —seven of them took poison; oxalic acid, three;
spirit of salt, sulphuric acid, bichromate of potash and carbolic acid,
one each; six found a watery grave; three shot themselves; three
jumped out of window; and two hanged themselves.