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contributed a very large number—41, nearly twice as many as in 1909, when 24
persons were certified as having died from this cause. Enteric fever which
caused no deaths in 1909, gave 6 in 1910.
Phthisis and other Tubercular Diseases.
The deaths due to phthisis and other tubercular diseases (tubercular
meningitis, general tuberculosis, tabes mesenterica, etc.) numbered 169. Of
these, 133 were certified as from phthisis (consumption of the lungs), the
remaining 36 being traceable to tubercular affections of the brain coverings
(tubercular meningitis) and of the peritoneum (tubercular peritonitis, tabes
mesenteria), etc.
As shown in the following table, the number of deaths and the death rates
from tuberculosis have fallen steadily since 1905, there being in 1910 seventynine
fewer deaths from this cause than in the first named year. Between 1908
and 1909 the difference was 3; between 1909 and 1910 it is 31.

Further reference to the matter of deaths from phthisis will be made when
dealing with that disease in the part of the report relating to records of disease.
It may be said, however, that the chief reduction in the number of deaths from
tuberculosis has been in those due to phthisis. In 1909 this disease caused 170
deaths as against 133 in 1910, the figures for the other tubercular conditions
being slightly higher in the latter year.
Respiratory Diseases.
The total number of deaths—270— from the diseases affecting the organs of
respiration—bronchitis, pneumonia, pleurisy, etc., was lower by 54 than in 1909,
when 324 were registered. The death rate was 2 24 as against 2 57 in 1909.
Of the total, 150 resulted from bronchitis and 99 from pneumonia.