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133 from phthisis, bronchitis 140, pneumonia 130, old age 123, cancer 116, violence 54,
apoplexy 52, Brights disease 49, and prematurity which was given as causing
38 deaths.
Of the deaths from cancer, 57 were of males and 59 females. Ten were of persons
aged from 25 to 45 years, 62 of persons aged between 45 and 65 years, 32 were aged
between 65 and 75 and amongst persons aged from 75 to 85 years, there were twelve
deaths. In addition, nine deaths were attributed to malignant disease or sarcoma.
The death-rate due to cancer was 1.1 as compared with 0.98 for 1925, 1.1 for 1924,
1.0 for 1923, 0.82 for 1922, 0.87 for 1921, 0.91 for 1920, 0.93 for 1919, 0.95 for 1918
and 1.1 for 1917.
Eight deaths, six of them of males, resulted from appendicitis, and one male and
one female died from peritonitis.
No deaths were directly attributed to alcoholism, but four males and four females
were stated to have died from cirrhosis of the liver, a disease caused through chronic
poisoning by alcohol.
Of the deaths due to violence, 38 were amongst males and 16 females. Through
accidents or negligence, 25 males and 14 females lost their lives. Sixteen of these
resulted through street accidents mostly in connection with vehicular traffic, seven
were due to falls, chiefly amongst people getting on in years, and five were attributed
to suffocation. Four of these were amongst infants, one being due to suffocation
in bed. There were 15 cases of suicide, 13 of which were amongst males.
It is worth mentioning again, that in years gone by, deaths due to suffocation of
infants in bed were a somewhat conspicuous item in the mortality returns of the
Borough. Since 1914, however, deaths from this cause have undergone a marked
decrease. Taking the five years ending 1897, the number averaged approximately
30 per annum ; during the five years ending 1926 the average has been only two
annually.