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Other Diseases.—The Table given below contrasts
all deaths from these diseases. Taken altogether, the
number does not exceed, and with correction for increase
of population, it is below the average of the last eight
years ; in some of the classes there was a marked diminution
in the mortality, thus in Class 2, Tubercular diseases,
there were 34 deaths, as against 38 last year, and this is
below the average of the previous seven years; this class
caused 9.9 per cent. of all deaths, as against 12 per cent.
last year, and 16 deaths in this class are attributed to
Phthisis pulmonalis, 5 being of males, and 11 of
females.
The diseases in the Classes 3, 4, 5, 6, 11 and 13
caused respectively, and in order 14.9, 9.3, 17.3, 12.3,
7.6 and 8.5 per cent. of all deaths during the year, as
against 13.4, 10.4, 15.5, 9.2, 6.3 and 8.2 per cent. in the
previous year. In Class 5, diseases of the Respiratory
Organs, in Class 6, diseases of the Digestive Organs, and
in Class 13, Age, the average mortality was high. There
was a diminution of mortality in Classes 2, 4, 9, 10, 11
and 14.