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90
Ago at death
InfantMortality.
There Was a marked decline in the deaths
of infants under one year of age. The numbers
fell from 144 last year to 120 this year, being only
26.9 per cent of all deaths as compared with 30.4 per cent
in I886. 12.8 per cent of all deaths took place before
the age of live, and upward of 45 per cent before the age
of twenty.
Semile
Mortality.
There was an increase in the mortality from tubercular
diseases in early life, and a decrease in that due to
nervous, digestive and respiratory diseases.
Thirty-one deaths are ascribed to old age, as
compared with 21 in the previous year; 15 were
of males, and 16 of females. 130 deaths took place at,
and over 60, the ages of 54 of these ranged from 70 to
80, and 23 from 80 to 90, two were respectively 90
and 91.
Senile deaths yield a Percentage of 26 on all deaths.
Of the persons who died at 70 and upwards, 34 were males,
and 45 females.
Sickness and
Mortality
amongst the
out-door
Parish Poor.
The number of persons who were under
treatment, together with the nature and extent
of the sickness that prevailed, and the
deaths that took place amongst the out-door
parish poor will be found in Table 13. 395 cases came
under treatment during the year. 81 of these were in
the Zymotic class. They include one case of Small-pox,
30 Measles, 17 Scarlet Fever, 10 of Whooping Cough,
20 of Diarrhoea, one of Enteric Fever, and two of
Puerperal Fever, with three deaths one each from Measles,
Whooping Cough and Diarrhoea.
The fever cases were sent into Hospital. There were
sixteen deaths in the other classes due principally to old
ago, low vitality and lung affections.