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Constitutional The total deaths referred to this groub
Diseases.
of diseases were 104 in number, and 15 less
than the average. The most fatal were diseases of the
Tubercular class causing 72 deaths, to which Consumption
alone, which Avas as usual the most fatal single
disease, contributed47, thus equalling the total deathsfrom
Zymotic diseases. Gout, Rheumatism, Cancer, Tumours,
and other constitutional diseases caused 32 deaths, 21
of which were due to Cancer.
l>evcioi>mcntai The deaths embraced by this group numbered
69, and were 4 less than the average.
To old age unassociated with disease, 33 deaths were
referred and to premature-birth, low vitality, and congenital
defects, 36.
Violence. The deaths from Violence numbered 15, and
were 6 less than the average.
Ill-defined and In one instance only, that of an infant
not specified.
found dead, was the cause of death not
specified.
The following table shews the annual^ number of
deaths in the eleven years 1879-89, with the increase
and decrease of deaths in 1889 compared with the
annual average deaths in 1879-88, raised in proportion
to increase of population:—