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During the year in question motor vehicles were more
important as the cause of death than the group of Infectious
Diseases, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Measles and Whooping
Cough.
Pneumonia and Bronchitis are each more important, as
causes of death, than Phthisis.
Out of 87 deaths from Heart Disease 49 were over the
age of 65 and 30 between 45 and 65. Many of these cases
were probably not so much a local disease of the heart as a
general decay in which the heart and arteries participated.
Of the 78 deaths from Cancer on the other hand only
33 or considerably less than half occurred over the age of 65,
while a further 37 occurred between 45 and 65 and 8 below
the age of 45.
The deaths from Cancer for the last five years have been
as follows:—
1921 56 (Population 56,045).
1922 66 (Population, 57,507).
1923 60 (Population, 60,495).
1924 83 (Population, 64,444).
1925 78 (Population, 66,922).
Although the deaths are lower in 1925 than in 1924 a
pretty definite upward trend is shewn even in that short period
and making allowance for the growth of population.