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Social Position.— The proportion of deaths in the
different social grades was as follows:—
Nobility and gentry 0 per cent.
Professional classes 13.3 „
Middle and trading classes 29.9 ,,
Industrial and labouring classes 56.8 „
Tubercular Diseases were the cause of 23 deaths during
the year, which is equivalent to 9.4 per cent. of the total
mortality, or 1.2 per 1,000 per annum of the population
living.
Respiratory Diseases were the cause of 55 deaths. This
number is considerably higher than the usual proportion
of deaths from this cause. No doubt many of these cases
were complications or sequelae of Influenza. The deaths
from respiratory diseases were equal to 3 per 1,000 per
annum of the population living.
Nine deaths were registered as the result of Cancer. It
is a noteworthy fact that the mortality attending this
disease tends to rise year after year.
Zymotic Diseases.—In Table IV. the number of deaths
arising from Zymotic Diseases is tabulated, and a
comparison made with those occuring during the previous
nine years. Thirty-six deaths occurred from these diseases,
which gives us a Zymotic death-rate of 19 per 1,000 per
annum.