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57
Deaths
occuring
in Tooting.
Deaths All deaths recorded in Tooting will he found
occuring
in Tooting. in table II. with particulars as to causes of
death, age, sex, and social position. Thirty-three deaths
were of infants under one year of age, 21 over 60 years,
and 5 from 80 and upwards. According to class distribution
2 took place amongst the gentry, 15 in the
professional and mercantile classes, 29 in the middle and
trading class, and 52 amongst the labouring population.
The death-rate though somewhat higher than last year
is to be explained owing to the large number of deaths
recorded in the early part of the year—in the months of
January and February—from respiratory diseases. Only
two were directly attributed to Influenza, but on the other
hand eleven were recorded as due to Bronchitis and eight
to Pneumonia. There is very little doubt that the large
majority of these were either directly or indirectly the
result of the Influenza epidemic. Considering its widespread
prevalence in this district as elsewhere, I think
we may fairly congratulate ourselves on the comparatively
small mortality caused by it, for though somewhat
high it was very much lower than in many other places.
Six deaths were caused by Phthisis, all of them males.
Five deaths were due to violence and in each case an
inquest was held—one was homicidal—one suicidal, and
the remaining three were caused by accident.