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Senile Mortality.—There -was a great increase in the
number of deaths at. high ages during the past year. 42
deaths were registered as having resulted from age
unassociated with any disease, but 79 deaths, 30 of males
and 49 of females were recorded at 70 years and upwards
and formed 13.7 per cent of all deaths the decennial average
having been 12.0. The deaths of females at high ages, as
usual, largely preponderated : thus there were from 70.75,
twenty-six deaths, eleven of males and fifteen of females;
from 75.80, twenty-five, six of males and nineteen of
females; from 80.85, fifteen, seven of males and eight of
females; from 85.90 eight, five of males and three of
females; at 92, 94, and 96, one female respectively; and at
97, one male and one female.
Sickness and Mortality amongst the Parochial Poor.—The
nature, amount and fatality of the disease that occurred
amongst the parochial poor during the year is contained in
Table 5 Appendix, on reference to which it is seen that there
came under treatment 581 cases of disease from which 29
deaths or a little under 5 per cent resulted. The total
amount of sickness and mortality was 15 per cent less than
the preceding decennial averages which represented 678
cases of sickness and 34 deaths, while epidemic disease and
its attendant fatality were scarcely half the average amount.
This record therefore fully corroborates the figures given in
the Table on page 94 shewing the relatively great reduction
of the mortality that occurred amongst the labouring classes.
The only diseases which can be said to have prevailed
epidemically amongst the parochial poor were Scarlatina and
Diarrhoea and those only in the Summer quarter. Five isolated
cases of Small-pox occurred, 3 in July and 2 in December,
and were removed to Hospital where all, except one,
recovered, the exception having been a child unprotected by
vaccination.
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