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Classification of Deaths (contd).
General Paralysis of the Insane, Tabes Dorsalis 3.
Cancer 57. Diabetes 5. Cerebral Haemorrhage 10.
Heart Disease 103. Aneurysm 2. Other circulatory
diseases 30. Bronchitis 17. Pneumonia 22. Other
respiratory diseases 6. Peptic Ulcer 7. Diarrhoea
(under 2 years) 3. Appendicitis 0. Cirrhosis of
Liver 4. Other diseases of Liver 0. Other Digestive
diseases 8. Nephritis 7. Puerperal Sepsis 0.
Other Puerperal causes 1. Congenital Debility,
Premature Birth, Malformation etc. 4 Senility 11.
Suicide 6. Other violence 14. Other defined causes 30.
Causes ill-defined or unknown 0. Diarrhoea (over
2 years) 1.
INFANT MORTALITY. There were 14 deaths of Infants
under one year of age. The causes of deaths were
as follows:- Syphilis 2. Pneumonia 3.
Diarrhoea 3. Cirrhosis of Liver 1. Congenital
Debility, Premature birth, Malformation etc. 4.
Other violence 1.
PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES IN BOROUGH.
BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS. The total number of
Bacteriological and other examinations carried out was
275.Included in this number were 263 for the Diptheria
Bacillus and 12 for Tubercle Bacillus.
NURSING IN THE HOME. The arrangement with the
Metropolitan District Nursing Association to undertake
the nursing of necessitous cases of Measles, Whooping
Cough, Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Epidemic Diarrhoea,
Pneumonia, Encephalitis Lethargica, Tuberculosis,
Maternity (including complications after confinement)
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia, was continued
throughout the year. The total number of visits was
357 (14 cases).