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deaths from the disease have taken place, and giving advice as to
the precautions that should he taken to prevent further mischief in
the family. A card of printed instructions is left at the house and
disinfection of the room lately occupied by the patient is offered.
Some good is undoubtedly effected in this way, but until provision
can be made for the isolation of a good proportion of advanced cases
and for the treatment of some, at least, of those recently infected,
much progress in the direction of a large reduction in the mortality
from phthisis cannot be expected.
Respiratory Diseases, including bronchitis, pneumonia,
pleurisy, and other non-tuberculous diseases of the respiratory
system, gave rise to fewer deaths than in 1904. The figures are
123, giving a death rate of 2.2 per 1,000, compared with 135 and a
death rate of 2.5 for the latter year.
Syphilis. One death only was returned under this head;
nothing, however, is more misleading than the death returns from
this disease.
Alcoholism. Ten deaths from this cause were recorded.
Cancer. Thirty-one deaths of persons belonging to the district
were registered as being due to cancer, and this is equivalent to a
death rate of 0.56. The deaths in the three preceding years were
19, 40, and 30.
In the following table the deaths from cancer in the two workhouses
have been added to those which belong to the district proper,
and the 57 deaths thus collected have been analysed according to
the nature and position of the disease:—