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Purpura (Hemorrhagic Diathesis) was the cause of one
death ; Ancemiaand Leucocythoemia, of 4 ; Glycosuria, Diabetes
Mellitus, of 15.
Tubercular Diseases were the registered causes of
333 deaths (as compared with 350, 318, and 340, in the preceding
three years respectively); viz., 292 in the Town subdistrict,
and 41 in Brompton: 89 of the deaths were of
children under five years of age. In a few instances Phthisis
was returned as the cause of death in infancy, a period of life
at which the tubercular diathesis commonly manifests itself
in other parts of the body than the lungs, e.g., the brain,
bowels, &c. Such deaths have been classified in Table III.
(appendix), with those ascribed to " Other forms of Tuberculosis,
Scrofula," the total being 49 (of which 33 occurred under
five years of age), including 43 registered in the Town subdistrict.
Tabes Mesenterica, popularly known as consumption
of the bowels, was the cause of 10 deaths (all of them in the
Town sub-district) ; all of them under five years of age, and
6 under one year. Tubercular Meningitis and Hydrocephalus
(water on the brain) were the causes of 57 deaths; 3 only of
them in Brompton, and 44 under five years of age. Phthisis,
popularly known as decline or consumption, was the cause of
217 deaths; 2 under five years of age, 6 between five and
fifteen years of age, and 204 between fifteen and sixty-five :
viz., 26, 43, 68, 45, and 22, in the five decennial periods consecutively
: 5 deaths were registered at ages over 65. Of the
total deaths, 185 belong to the Town sub-district, and 32 to
Brompton. The deaths from tubercular diseases were, proportionally
to population, not nearly so numerous in Brompton
as in the Town sub-district.
Class V.—Developmental Diseases.
In this Class the total deaths were 228, viz., 181 in the
Town sub-district, and 47 in Brompton. Premature Birth
was the assigned cause of 69 deaths, 15 of them in the
Brompton sub-district ; Atelectasis of 7, six of them in the