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Developmental Diseases. There were 225 deaths from
this class of causes, equal to a rate of 2.35 per 1,000.
These may roughly be divided into those from causes
which would appear to be unavoidable, viz.:—Atelectasis 6,
Congenital defects 11, and those from causes more or less
preventible, viz.:—Premature birth 34, Injury at birth 2,
Debility at birth 8, Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus 24,
Rickets 3, and Dentition 4.
The remaining and largest portion of these deaths from
developmental diseases, 133 in number, were from Old Age;
in 1910 there were 117 deaths from this cause, and 147 in the
previous year.
Local Diseases. Nervous System. One hundred and
twenty-two deaths were attributed to the various nervous
diseases, which gives a rate of 1.28 per 1,000; last year the
rate was 1.01 per 1,000. Convulsions were responsible for
14, 13 being under five years of age; 11 were from Meningitis,
55 from Apoplexy, 9 from Softening of the Brain. 6
from Hemiplegia or Brain Paralysis, 7 from General
Paralysis of the Insane, 3 from Cerebral Tumour, 4 from
Locomotor Ataxy, 8 from Paraplegia, and 5 from the other
diseases of this system.
Organs of Special Sense. There were 3 deaths from
this class of causes, equal to a rate of 0.03 per 1,000.
Circulatory System. The Death Rate from diseases of
this system was 1.55 per 1,000, there being a total of 148
such deaths. Valvular diseases of the heart were responsible
for 127; 7 from Embolism, 3 each from Angina Pectoris and
Aneurism, 2 from Varicose Veins, and from the remaining
diseases of this system, 6.
Respiratory System. Two hundred deaths were due to
diseases of the respiratory organs, as compared with 219 in