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Town sub-district; and Congenital Malformation of 15, thirteen
of them in the Town sub-district. Old Age was the registered
cause of 137 deaths, all but three of them at ages over sixtyfive
: between sixty-five and seventy-five there were 19 deaths
so classified ; between seventy-five and eighty-five 78 ; and at
eighty-five and upwards 37.
Class VI.—Local Diseases.
The Diseases in this Class, which comprises eleven
Orders, named after the systems or organs to which the
diseases relate, were accountable for 1,324 deaths (as compared
with 1,299 in 1897) or 47"3 per cent, of the deaths from all
causes : 1,070 were registered in ths Town sub-district, and
254 in Brompton : 389 were of children under five years of
age. The deaths from the diseases comprised in the several
Orders were as follows :—
1. nervous System.—Diseases of the nervous system
were the registered causes of 241 deaths (as compared with
248, 273, and 265, in the preceding three years respectively),
viz., 197 in the Town sub-district, and 44 in Brompton : 71 of
the deaths were of children under five years of age, and 139
occurred at ages over forty-five. The fatal diseases were,
Inflammation of the Brain or Membraties, 31 deaths; Apoplexy,
Softening of the Brain, Hemiplegia, Brain Paralysis, 122 deaths
(98 in the Town sub-district, 24 in Brompton); Insanity,
General Paralysis of the Insane, 7 (six of them in the Town
sub-district:) Epilepsy, 9 ; Convulsions, 44 (all under five, and
39 under one year); Laryngismus Stridulus, 1 ; Disease of the
Spinal Cord, Paraplegia, Paralysis Agitans, 2 ; Other Diseases
of Nervous System, 25.
2. Diseases of the Organs of Special Sense
(^. of Ear, Eye, Nose) are comprised in this Order. Five
deaths were registered from these causes.