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Notes to Table iii.
(a) All "Transferable Deaths" of residents, i.e., of persons resident in the
District who have died outside it. are included with the other
deaths in columns 2-10. Transferable deaths of non-residents, i.e..
of persons resident elsewhere in England and Wales who have died
in the District, are in like manner excluded from these columns. For
the precise meaning of the term "transferable deaths" see footnote to
Table I.
The total deaths in column 2 of Table III. equal the figures for the
year in column 12 of Table I
(b) All deaths occurring in institutions for the sick and infirm situated
within the district, whether of residents or non-residents, are entered
in the last column of Table III.
(c) All deaths certified by registered Medical Practitioners and all
Inquest cases are classed as "Certified": all other deaths are to
be regarded as "Uncertified."
(d) This heading includes all deaths from croup except those certified
as due to 'spasmodic.' 'stridulous.' 'catarrhal.' or 'false croup.
(e) Under "Tuberculous Meningitis" are included deaths from Acute
Hydrocephalus
(f) Under "Cancer" are included deaths under such headings as
Carcinoma. Scirrhus. Epithelioma. Rodent ulcer. Sarcoma, Cancer,
and Malignant Disease.
(g) Under this heading are included deaths registered as due to Epidemic
diarrhœa, Epidemic enteritis. Infective enteritis. Zymotic enteritis.
Summer diarrhoea. Choleraic diarrhoea. Cholera (other than Asiatic).
Gastro-enteritis. Gastro-intestinal catarrh. Muco-enteritis. Colitis, etc
Deaths from Diarrhoea secondary to some other well-defined disease
are included under the latter.
For "Dysentery" see note at foot of Table III.
(h) Under this heading are included deaths from Delirium tremens, acute
and chronic alcoholism, etc.. but not those certified as due to
organic disease attributed to alcoholism. The number of the latter
may with advantage be stated separately, though this statement
cannot be included in Table III.
(i) Under "Puerperal Fever" are included deaths under such headings
as Pyaemia, Septicaemia. Sapraemia, Pelvic peritonitis, Peri- and
Endo-metritis occurring in the Puerperium.
(j) Under this heading are included also deaths from Atrophy and
Marasmus of Infants, and want of Breast-milk. but not from
Atelectasis.