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three years respectively); viz., 258 in the Town sub-district,
and 60 in Brompton; 62 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 34 (of which 16 occurred under five years of
age), including 30 registered in the Town sub-district. Tales
Mesenterica, popularly known as " consumption of the bowels,"
was the cause of 10 deaths (nine of them in the Town subdistrict); all of them under five years of age, and 8 under one
year. Tubercular Meningitis and Hydrocephalus (water on the
brain) were the causes of 34 deaths; 7 of them in Brompton,
and 28 under five years of age. Phthisis, popularly known
as "decline," or "consumption," was the cause of 239 deaths,
8 under five years of age; 4 between five and fifteen years of
age, and 217 between fifteen and sixty-five; viz., 26, 58, 73,
39 and 21, in the five decennial periods consecutively; 10
deaths were registered at ages over 65. Of total deaths, 191
belong to the Town sub-district, and 48 to Brompton. The
deaths from tubercular diseases were, proportionately, not so
numerous in Brompton as in the Town sub-district.
Class V.—Developmental Diseases.
In this Class the total deaths were 225, viz., 183 in the
Town sub-district, and 42 in Brompton. Premature Birth
was the assigned cause of 79 deaths, 14 of them only in the
Brompton sub-district; Atelectasis of 8, 6 of them in the
Town sub-district; and Congenital Malformation of 15, 11
of them in the Town sub-district. Old Age was the registered
cause of 123 deaths, all but two of them at ages over sixtyfive:
between sixty-five and seventy-five there were 20
deaths so classified; between seventy-five and eighty-five 60;
and at eighty-five and upwards 41,