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Local Diseases. Nervous System. This class of disease
is credited with having caused 125 deaths, giving a death rate of
l-23 per 1,000. Of this number, 29 were ascribed to Convulsions,
all of them being in young children, and this number should be
further added to the class of preventible diseases requiring attention
in a similar way to those previously mentioned. Meningitis
is credited with having caused 17 deaths—Apoplexy, 36; Softening
of the Brain, 4; Brain Paralysis, 6; General Paralysis, 9; Diseases
of the Spinal Cord, 6; other diseases of the Brain and Nervous
System 18.
Circulatory System. This class of disease is credited with
having occasioned 138 deaths. One hundred and sixteen of this
number being ascribed to Valvular Diseases of the Heart.
Respiratory System. This class of disease is credited with
214 deaths, givinga death rate of 2.11 per 1,000. Of this number,
43 were ascribed to Acute Bronchitis, 32 of the cases being in
children under 5 years of age; 63 to Chronic Bronchitis; 97 to
Pneumonia, 41 of which were in children under 5 years of age;
other diseases of the Respiratory System, 11 deaths.
Digestive System. This class of disease is credited as the
cause of 89 deaths ; Enteritis being credited with 25, 20 being in
children under 5 years of age; Obstruction of the Bowels, 18;
Appendicitis, 9; Cirrhosis of the Liver, 12; Peritonitis, 9; and
the remaining diseases of this system, 16.
Urinary System. Thirty-four deaths were ascribed to this
class of disease, 27 of these being due to Bright's Disease.
Reproductive System. Nine deaths were ascribed to be
due to diseases of generative organs, and 6 to various conditions
attendant upon, and complicating, the parturient condition.