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Of the 99 deaths registered as being due to causes other
than Epidemic or Zymotic, the Tubercular class of maladies
will be found to occupy a prominent place in the
tables, and to have contributed 20 deaths to the Register
of the year, 17 of which being deaths from Phthisis alone.
Diseases of the Brain and Nerves contributed the next
largest number, viz., 17. Affections of the Respiratory
Organs resulted in death in 16 cases; of the Heart, 6;
of the Digestive Organs, 11; whilst from Violence, Accident,
&c., 8 persons succumbed, and from all other causes,
specified and not specified, 25. In the aggregate there
were less deaths due to Non-epidemic maladies than were
noted in 1868.
Ages at Death.—The most unsatisfactory feature of
almost all records of mortality, to whatever locality they may
relate, is the preponderance of the deaths amongst the young.
Comparing the present table with that of the previous
year, it will be found that 59 deaths of infants and young
children, from birth to 10 years of age, took place in this
Sub-district in 1869, which is 23 above the number, at the
same ages, registered in the previous year. This is accounted
for by those diseases of the Zymotic class which
proved fatal during the past year having fallen almost
exclusively upon young children, the deaths of nine persons
only, above 10 years of age, appearing in the table as having
been due to this class of maladies. The total deaths
of infants and children between birth and 10 years of age,
to the total at all ages, is as high as 44.3 per cent.
The deaths of persons of advanced life, that is to say
from 60 to 80 years of age, and from 80 and upwards,
were, it will be seen, on about the average scale. Of persons
over 70 and under 80, there died 10 persons, whilst
5 succumbed who were registered as being over 80 years,
the oldest at the time of death having reached the rather
advanced age of 86. Of these deaths 4 were registered as
due to natural decay, without the mention of any actual