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91
Social Position-
The following Table shows the percentage
of deaths in the various classes during the year.
Nobility and Gentrv 28 = 6.29 per cent.
Professional Class, Merchants, &c. 72 = 16.2 ,,
Middle and Trading Class 147 =33.01 ,,
Industrial and Labouring Class 198 = 44 5 ,,
Total deaths 445 100
There was a lower rate of mortality in all classes during
the year, more markedly so in the Higher, Middle,
and Industrial than in the Professional Classes
Seventeen inquests were held with the
allowing results:—
Inquests
Violent Deaths.
I. Natural .. Natural causes 1
Syncope 4
Convulsions 3—8
II. Accidental Scalds 1
Poisoning 1
Asphyxia by drowning 1
Suffocation 1
Fracture of Skull 3
Run over by van 1
Bun over by train 1—9
Uncertified
Deaths.
17
Six deaths were uncertified, they were
all submitted to the Coroner before being registered
as having probably died from the following
causes:—
Heart Disease
Natural Decay 1
Measles Bronchitis 1
Convulsions 1
Syncope 1
Exhaustion 1
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Sanitary
Proceedings.
A summary of the usual and principal sanitary
works of the year may be seen in Table
14. This does not include a large amount of work
which cannot be tabulate.