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bowels, &c. Such deaths have been classified in Table III.
(appendix), with those ascribed to " Other forms of Tuberculosis,
Scrofulathe total being 53 (of which 32 occurred under
five years of age), including 48 registered in the Town subdistrict.
Tabes Mesenterica, popularly known as consumption
of the bowels, was the cause of 12 deaths (10 of them in the
Town sub-district); all of them under five years of age, and 9
under one year. Tubercular Meningitis and Hydrocephalus
(water on the brain) were the causes of 35 deaths; 2 only of
them in Brompton, and 28 under five years of age. Phthisis,
popularly known as decline or consumption, was the cause of
240 deaths ; 3 under five years of age, 3 between five and
fifteen years of age, and 226 between fifteen and sixty-five:
viz., 34, 53, 63, 47, and 29, in the five decennial periods consecutively:
8 deaths were registered at ages over 65. Of the
total deaths, 202 belong to the Town sub-district, and 3S 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 187, viz., 152 in the
Town sub-district, and 35 in Brompton. Premature Birth
was the assigned cause of 66 deaths, 16 of them in the
Brompton sub-district; Atelectasis of 5, all of them in the
Town sub-district; and Congenital Malformation of 11, ten of
them in the Town sub-district. Old Age was the registered
cause of 105 deaths, all of them at ages over sixty-five:
between sixty-five and seventy-five there were 19 deaths so
classified ; between seventy-five and eighty-five 56; and at
eighty-five and upwards 30.
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 1,299 deaths (as compared