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deaths of this class of persons and those of the three
higher classes. It is now, however, no uncommon circumstance
to find the deaths amongst the three classes above
the industrial, to exceed collectively the latter by a very
large number. In the present table they are in the
proportion of 92 to 62 in favour of the industrial classes.
Amongst the pauper population exclusively the sickness
during the year has been of a very slight character, though
rather more cases have fallen under the treatment of the
District Union Medical Officer, and about double the
number of deaths have resulted than in the previous year,
(vide Table V. Appendix). No deaths appear to have
taken place amongst the Union poor from any one of the
7 principal Zymotic maladies, the mortality being confined
chiefly to Lung affections and to Tubercnlar diseases.
Inquests, Uncertified Deaths, &c.—One death only
took place during the year unattested by Medical certificate.
The deceased was a male, aged 8!), and "senile
decay " was placed on the register as the cause of death.
Such an entry without a certificate is perhaps as excuseable
as any of which complaints have from time to time
been made, since sudden death at so advanced a period of
life is to be looked for at any moment. Unless then a claim
to property or money is dependent on the death, an inquest
perhaps would hardly have been justified in such a case.
There were 13 Coroner's Inquests held in the Subdistrict
during 1874, resulting in the following verdicts :—
Deaths from Natural Causes.—Spasm of the chest, 1;
Asthma, 1; Bronchitis, 1 ; Fits, 2, and 6
Natural decay, 1
Accidental Deaths.—Drowned, 2 ; Struck by a passing 3
engine, 1
Found Dead.—Infant, newly born 1
Suicides.—Cut throat, 1; by drowning, 1 2
Manslaughter.—Effusion on brain, from a blow 1
Total 13
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