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The subjoined statement, being a summary of the Table in Appendix I., page 57 shows the
number of deaths from diseases comprised in the "New List of Causes of Death," as used in the
Annual Reports of the Registrar-General for England and Wales, referred to in the following pages ;
to which I have added the deaths from violence, and certain diseases comprised in the old classification
under the heading Ill-defined and Not Specified Causes, e.g., Debility, Atrophy, Inanition,
terms which find no place in the New List.
GENERAL DISEASES ...
No. of Deaths.
996
LOCAL DISEASES—
Diseases of Nervous System... ... ... ... 116
Diseases of Organs of Special Sense ... ... ... 8
Diseases of Heart ... ... ... ... ... 269
Diseases of Blood-vessels ... ... ... ... 154
Diseases of Respiratory Organs ... ... ... 458
Diseases of Digestive System ... ... ... 148
Diseases of Lymphatic System ... ... ... 3
Diseases of Urinary System ... ... ... 87
Diseases of Generative System ... ... ... 10
Accidents of Childbirth ... ... ... ... 3
Diseases of Locomotive System ... ... ... 6
Diseases of Integumentary System ... ... ... 9
1,266
DEATHS FROM VIOLENCE —
Accident or Negligence ... ... ... ... 69
Homicide ... ... ... ... ... 3
Suicide ... ... ... ... ... 14
86
ILL-DEFINED AND NOT SPECIFIED CAUSES 50
Total ... ... 2,398
GENERAL DISEASES.
The Deaths from the " Principal Diseases of the Zymotic Class " (247, 278 and 180 in the
preceding three years respectively) were 167 in 1908, and 108 below the corrected decennial average
(275). These deaths, of which 151 belong to the Town sub-district and 16 to Brompton, were
equivalent to 09 per 1,000 persons living (IT in the Town sub-district and 0'3 in Brompton)
as compared with TO in 1907 ; the decennial average being T5.
The rate in the Metropolis, as a whole, was 1*35 per 1,000 (1*42 in 1907); the decennial
average being 2T.