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Other
Diseases. 1
in any year of the decennium. Probably the long, cold
spring had to do with this result, as it favoured pulmonary
congestions its generally fatal termination.
There were 16 deaths from epidemic Diarrhoea.
Allowing for increase of population this did not exceed
the average.
These are grouped under five heads in the
Mortality table, viz :—Constitutional, Local,
Developmental, Violence, and Ill-defined.
The total number of deaths from the diseases included
under these various headings, was below the number
recorded in 1886. Considered separately, there was a
decline in the number of deaths from some diseases and
an increase in others.
In the Tubercular Class the mortality was high, forming
13.2 per cent, of all deaths.
There was a marked decline in the number of deaths
from Respiratory Diseases. They form 15 per cent, of
all deaths as against 20.2 per cent, last year.
Diseases of the Neivous System resulted in 60 deaths,
giving a per centage only of 13.4 upon all deaths.
There was a decline in the mortality from Circulatory
and Digestive Diseases, and a rise in the deaths from
Old Age and Violence.
The deaths from the other diseases under the various
headings do not differ sufficiently from their averages to
call for special remark.