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As usual, the deaths due to Tubercular diseases, diseases
of the Brain and Nervous System, and of the Respiratory
Organs, have respectively claimed the most victims. Of
the 24 deaths due to the Tubercular class of maladies, as
many as 20 were registered as the result of Phthisis.
As to the ages at death, it is satisfactory to find that
those who died during the past year between birth and
10 years of age, were fewer by 8 than were recorded in the
last report, the principal diminution being found in children
between 1 and 5 years of age. This is evidently owing to
the great fatality of Scarlatina in 1871, when as many as
17 deaths of children occurred between the ages stated,
whereas in the present table 4 only are recorded as having
succumbed to this disease. The number of deaths of infants
and children from birth to 10 years of age was 60, or 41.6
per cent of the deaths from all causes. The deaths of
persons from 20 to 40 were 25, against 15 in the previous
year; of those between 40 and 60, 19 against 13; of those
from 60 to 80, 30 against 14; and of those over 80, 2 against
8. The age of the oldest person registered was 97.
The social positions of the several deceased persons will
be readily gathered from the Mortality Table. One of the
most gratifying features of recent tables, is the record of
such a comparatively small number of deaths amongst the
working classes, and of the poor generally of this parish.
Amongst the Union poor exclusively, the per centage of
deaths to cases treated during the year was somewhat
higher than usual (5.3). In the past year there were 282
cases of sickness, accident, &c., treated, and 15 resulting
deaths. In the preceding year, (1871) the deaths were 12,
and the cases treated 318, or 3.7 per cent.
The Inquests held in this Sub-district upon the bodies of
persons found dead, or who had died during the year from
accident and other causes necessitating inquiry, were 8.