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handed to the patient's relatives, were sent by the certifying practitioner
direct to the Registrar, there is little doubt that the recorded mortality
from alcoholism and certain other diseases would soon show a marked
increase.
Diseases of the Circulatory System.
These accounted for 119 deaths, as compared with 153 in 1910.
Diseases of the Respiratory System.
The total mortality from these diseases was 106, as compared with
130 in 1909. Thirty-one deaths occurred in children under five years
of age, and 52 in persons aged from 65 years upwards.
Of the total deaths 49 were due to pneumonia and bronchopneumonia,
39 to bronchitis, 6 to pleurisy, and 12 to other diseases of
the respiralory organs.
Accident.
Twenty-two deaths were classified under this heading, as compared
with 20 in 1910 ; 8 were due to falls, 4 to drowning, 3 to burns and
scalds, 3 to street accidents, 1 to a fall from an aeroplane, and 3 to other
accidents.
Suicide.
Fifteen persons committed suicide, as against 8 in 1910. In 6
cases the cause of death was poisoning, 1 death was due to hanging, 1 to
asphyxia, 1 to drowning, 2 to bullet wounds in brain, and 4 to cut
throat.