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between the ages of 25 and 65. Epidemic Influenza has
claimed 34 victims, most of these being at advanced age
periods. Cancerous diseases present a somewhat similar record,
there having been 158 deaths at all ages, 92 of these at ages
from 25 to 65 years, and 63 in persons aged over 65 years.
Chest diseases always bulk large in the annual death roll, and
during 1908 caused 298 deaths under only four specific headings,
no inconsiderable number of deaths due to other unspecified
respiratory diseases going to swell the large column headed " All
other causes." Deaths by accident or negligence have numbered
57, and those by suicide 18. It is highly satisfactory to be able
to state that only three deaths have had to be classified in the
column "ill-defined causes."
Finally, in this very general review, one may allude to the
somewhat unusual fact that two deaths are ascribed to chicken
pox.
The principal causes of death are tabulated in several ways in
the following tables with a view of bringing certain details,
which will be apparent at a glance, into greater prominence.

Note.— In the above table the births and deaths have all been properly corrected,
strangers have been eliminated, and extra-parochial deaths and others have been
allotted to their proper Sub-district.