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The chief causes of death at all ages were : bronchitis, which accounted for 197 ;
pneumonia, which caused 179 ; tuberculosis, 145, including 124 from consumption ;
diseases of the heart and circulatory organs, 154; cancer, 119; old age, 83;
measles, 58 ; violence, 66 ; Bright's disease, 46 ; apoplexy, 39 ; prematurity, 36 ;
diarrhcea and enteritis, 29 ; influenza, 28 ; whooping cough, 28 ; and atrophy, debility
and marasmus, to which were attributed 18 deaths.
Of the deaths from cancer 68 were of males and 51 females ; 11 were of persons
aged between 25 and 45 years, 62 of persons aged from 45 to 65 years, 29 and 16,
respectively, were the numbers for the next two decades, and there was one death
in a person over 85 years. There were, in addition, 7 deaths attributed to malignant
disease and sarcoma. Doubtless some deaths from cancer arc included amongst
those attributed to malignant disease. The death-rate due to cancer was 1.1 per
1,000 population, as compared with 1.0 in 1923, 0.82 in 1922, 0.87 in 1921, 0.91 in
1920, 0.93 in 1919, 0.95 in 1918, and 1.1 in 1917.
Nine persons, 5 of them males, died from appendicitis. There were no deaths
attributed to peritonitis. There were no deaths directly attributed to alcoholism,
but there were 7 deaths, all of males, from cirrhosis of the liver.
Of the deaths from violence, 42 were of males and 24 females. Through accident
or negligence 30 males and 19 females lost their lives. Fifteen of these resulted
through street accidents, nine from burns or scalds, and 12, mostly amongst old
people, through falls. Seventeen persons, of whom 12 were males, committed
suicide. .Three infants were suffocated in bed. The decrease in the mortality
from this cause has been the subject of comment in previous reports.

Elsewhere than in public institutions four persons not belonging to Shoreditch
died within the Borough.