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Tuberculosis.
The mortality from Tubercular Diseases is dealt with in Section
"D" of this Report, on pages 48-61.
Infant and Child Mortality.
The deaths of infants and of children under five years of age are
referred to in Section "E," on pages 63-77.
Violent Deaths (excluding Suicide).
22 deaths were classified under this heading as compared with
19 in 1920. The causes of death were as follows:—3 were due to falls
indoors, 2 to falls out of doors and 1 to fail from window; 4 to
injuries caused by being knocked down or run over by motor or.tram
cars, etc., 2 to'motor cycle accidents, 1 (an infant) to overlying, 1 to heat
apoplexy, 3 to clothes catching fire, 1 to poisoning, 1 to abortion, 1 to
results of gunshot wound in action 4½ years previously, 1 to drowning,
and 1 to diving accident at the Swimming Baths.
Suicide.
11 persons committed suicide, this being the same number as in
1920.
The causes of death were as follows:—Drowning, 3; cut throat,
1; fall from window, 2; gas poisoning, 1; decapitation—jumped in
front of train, 1 ; poisoning, 2; pistol shot, 1.