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157
were 201 in number, to which Bronchitis contributed
114, and Pnenmonia 67, and exceeded the corrected
average by 68. The excess was the result of the
epidemic of Influenza.
Constitutional. The next most fatal class was the Constitutional,
which includes the Tubercular diseases, Consumption,
Scrofula, &c., with Cancer, Tumours, and
others of constitutional origin. The number amounted
to 138, Consumption alone contributing 83, or 14 more
than in the previous year; the excess being doubtless
attributable to the effects of Influenza in common with
that of the other diseases of the Respiratory-Organs.
Nervous. Diseases of the Brain and Nervous System
were the next in order of fatality, numbering 104. The
number is 35 less than the average, the decrease corresponding
with that in the number of deaths in the
Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum.
Digestive. The deaths from these diseases amounted to
51, and were 9 in excess of the average.
Generative. From this class the deaths were twice the
average number.
From these causes 66 deaths resulted, and
Premature Birth, Low
Vitality, and Congenital Defects. were 18 in excess of the average number. The
reason of this excess is not apparent, but looking
to the extensive prevalence of Influenza, the increase
might be not unreasonably assumed to have been another
effect of that disease.
Urinary, The deaths from this and the remaining
Circulatory,
Violence. classes were slightly above the average, with
the exception of diseases of the Heart and Circulation,
which with deaths from Violence were somewhat less
than the average.