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As might he anticipated from the circumstance of the
death-register containing the whole mortality of the
County Lunatic Asylum, diseases of the Brain and
Nervous System formed the largest number of deaths,
amounting to no Jess than 151 or nearly 21 per cent, of
the whole, 112 of the number having occurred in the
Asylum. Withdrawing this class from consideration, for
the reasons explained in reference to the death-rate, the
following are the proportions borne by the several
classes of disease in the causation of mortality. As in
the previous year, diseases of the Respiratory Organs
shewed a considerable numerical excess forming upwards
of 18 per cent of all deaths and thus displacing from
their accustomed position Zymotic diseases which contributed
16 per cent. Tubercular diseases formed 12
per cent, considerably more than three-fourths of which
were furnished by Consumption; Other Constitutional
diseases which were formerly grouped under the heading
of Cancer, Dropsy, and Diseases of Uncertain Seat,
41 per cent; forming a total of the Constitutional Class
slightly in excess of the Zymotic Diseases of the organs
of Circulation caused 6.3 per cent; Premature Birth,
Malformation, &c., nearly the same amount; Old Age,
4.4 per cent to which diseases of the Digestive Organs
closely approximated; Urinary Organs, 3.6 per cent;
and Violence, 2.3 per cent. With the exception of
diseases of the Digestive Organs, which were 3 less than
the average, and those of the Integument and the Organs
of Locomotion which shew a minute diminution, all deaths
from Diseases of the Non-zymotic Classes were in excess
of their respective decennial averages; some greatly so,
as those from diseases of the Respiratory Organs which
exceeded the average by 39 per cent., from Constitutional
diseases over 18 per cent., from diseases of the Circulation,
58 per cent., and from Premature birth, &c., 40 per