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The Deaths from Pulmonary Diseases (except consumption)
numbered '28, or '2 per thousand of population.
The Deaths from the Seven Principal Zymotic Diseases
numbered 39. The diseases in question are Small-pox,
Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Whooping Cough,
Fever (including Typhus, Enteric or Typhoid, and
Simple Continued Fevers), and Diarrhoea. The number
of deaths recorded represents an annual Zymotic deathrate
of 2.8 per thousand of the population at all ages.
The deaths from fever numbered 4, equal to a deathrate
of .29 per thousand, and from diarrhoea 16, equal
to 1:2 per thousand. Further particulars as to the
deaths from these and other zymotic diseases will. be
found in the section devoted to that subject.
3. INQUESTS, DEATHS NOT CERTIFIED, and
DEATHS IN UNION PREMISES AND
PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
Two uncertified deaths occurred, as to which the
Coroner decided that it was unnecessary to hold inquests,
the cause of death in each case being stated to be " heart
disease.”
Seventeen deaths occurred where inquests were held,
one of which was at Cane Hill Asylum, and another at
the Holborn Union Workhouse. Nine of these inquests,
including those in the above institutions, resulted in
verdicts of “Death from natural causes.” Three resulted
in verdicts of “Accidental Death,” one from being
“overlaid,” one from “drowning,” and one from “fracture
of the skull through being knocked down by a railway
engine.” Two resulted in verdicts of “Suicide,” both