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may give rise to the- suspicion of cancer and thus cause anxiety. In men the lips and
tongue, gullet, stomach and intestines; and in women the breast and womb are most
frequently affected with cancer. The breast and womb in women are especiaJly liable
to be attacked, and it is the frequency with which they are the seat of the disease which
accounts for the preponderance of cancer cases amongst women.
The increase in the number of deaths attributed to appendicitis is worthy of note.
In 1901 the number registered was 2; in 1902 it was 4; in 1903, 5; and for the year
under consideration it has risen to seven.
Alcoholism was given as the cause of 30 persons dying, but there were 27 deaths
attributed to cirrhosis of the liver, a disorder which is practically always associated
with the excessive use of alcohol. Many other deaths during the year were without
doubt more or less directly attributable to the effects of alcoholic excess.
The various forms of violence resulted in 111 deaths, of which 77 were of males
and 34 of females. Accident or negligence occasioned 91 deaths, the chief causes being
the suffocation in bed of infants, mainly through being overlaid, which accounted for
32, falls, which caused 25, burns and scalds, and the results of accidents with horses and
vehicles. Two deaths were homicidal, and 18 persons committed suicide, 15 of whom
were males.
DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.

Elsewhere than in public institutions seven persons not belonging to Shoreditch
died within the Borough. In the subjoined table are set forth the various public
institutions outside Shoreditch with the numbers of persons belonging to the Borough
dying therein:—