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Of the deaths from Cancer, 85 were females and 50 males.
Tn 52 eases the persons were over years of age. On this point it
must be borne in mind that the population of the Borough was found
at the census of 1921 to consist of 52,900 females and 33,253 male.

Violent Deaths (excluding Suicide).
22 deaths were classified under this heading, being the same number
as in 1921. The causes of death were as follows:—5 were due to falls
indoors, 1 to a fall out of doors and 2 to falls from a wit.dow; 4 to
injuries caused by being knocked down, run over or crushed by motor
vehicles, 2 to clothes catching fire, 1 to burns, 1 to drowning, 2 to
escaping gas, 1 to being run over by train, 2 to food impaction in throat,
and 1 to heart failure at an operation where an anaesthetic was employed.
Suicide.
12 persons committed suicide, as compared with 11 in 1921.
The causes of death were as Follows : — Drowning,3; gas poisoning,
3 ; poisoning, 4; bullet wound 1 ; burns 1.
Venereal Diseases,
Until a different method of registering the causes of death is
instituted it will be impossible to form an estimate of the number of
deaths due to venereal diseases. That this number is larger than the
present system of registration shows there can be no doubt; and if to it
is added the number of deaths that are due to the long-delayed sequela .