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other tumours, Consumption, Scrofula, and other
tubercular diseases. It resulted in 141 deaths,
Consumption alone causing 58 and Cancer 29 deaths. The
latter disease appears to be on the increase.
The next most fatal of the group were diseases of the
Brain and Nervous system, which caused 123 deaths, or
39 less than the average number; but 86 occurred in the
Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum, the inmates of which
institution are, as previously stated, derived from without
this sub-distribt to which therefore they do not properly
belong.
Diseases of the Heart and Circulation caused 57 deaths,
the number being 13 in excess of the average.
To diseases of the Urinary organs the unusually large
number of 36 deaths were referred, being 13 above the
average.
The number of deaths due to diseases of the Digestiveorgans
were 31, and 11 less than the average.
In the Developmental class 63 deaths resulted from
premature birth and congenital defects, and were 7
above the average, while the deaths due to old age,
unassociated with disease, were 14 less than the average.
The deaths from violence were 18, or half the average
number.
The deaths from the remaining diseases present no
variation needing comment.