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Respiratory diseases were not so fatal as in 1885, the
deaths from these diseases formed 20.2 per cent of all
deaths as against 24 per cent last year.
Diseases of the nervous system resulted in 79 deaths,
giving a per centage of 14.5 upon all deaths.
There were forty deaths from Diseases of the Circulation
as compared with 26 in the previous year, forming
8.4 per cent of all causes of death.
The mortality from the other diseases under the
various headings do not differ sufficiently from their
averages to call for special remark.
Age at Death— It will be gathered from what has gone
infant Mortality, before that there was a higher ratio of
deaths of infants under one year of age than in 1885,
144 children died in the first year of life, being 30.4
per cent of all deaths, 42.7 per cent of all deaths took
place before the age of five, and 47.5 before twenty
years of age.
The mortality from Tubercular and Respiratory
diseases in early life fell below that of the previous year,
whereas the deaths from Measles, Whooping Cough,
and Diarrhoea rose considerably.
The infantile death.rate was 133 per 1,000 births as
compared with 110 last year.
Semie Mortality. There are only 21 deaths ascribed solely
to old age, though no less than 141 deaths took place at