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Respiratory Diseases.
Under this heading are included bronchitis, pneumonia, pleurisy,
and other diseases of the respiratory organs.
The number of deaths registered was 430. Of these deaths 91 were
children under one year of age, 78 over one and under five years, and
111 were persons over 65 years of age.
Bronchitis was most severe in the East and North Wards.
Broncho-pneumonia and pneumonia of all forms were also more
severe in these wards and accounted for more deaths than in any of
the other wards.
Influenza.
This disease, which is an infectious one, accounted for 21 deaths
during the year compared with 22 for the year 1914. 11 of the deaths
occurred between the ages of 25 and 65, and the remainder were of
persons over 65.
Constitutional Diseases.
These diseases which form a group which are only second in importance
to those known as the epidemic diseases accounted for 259
more deaths in 1915 than in 1914. They include rheumatic fever,
rheumatism, rickets, diabetes, gout, anaemia, heart, arterial and other
defined diseases.
During the year they caused 944 deaths against 685 for the previous
year.
Cancer and Malignant Diseases.
One hundred and nineteen deaths from cancer and malignant
diseases were recorded during the year. They were equal to a death
rate of 10.8 per 10,000 of the population, which is 0.3 below the rate
recorded in the preceding year. When comparison is made with
the mean return for the preceding ten years it is found that they are
18 in excess.