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Brain, Diseases of the 13
Apoplexy 11
Lungs, Diseases of the 24
Heart „ „ 20
Scrofula 4
Convulsions 4
Spasm of the Glottis 7
Diarrhoea 3
Diphtheria 2
Syphilis 2
Premature birth and infantile debility 3
Visceral diseases (of Liver, Kidneys, &c.) 3
" Fever " 1; Thrush 1; " Sudden " 1 3
Total 99
Various diseases were specified in other six cases in which the
deaths were not returned as " sudden." Death was found to be
caused by disease in many of the cases in which the deceased
were "found dead," either in bed or otherwise, viz., from.
Lungs, Diseases of the 6
Heart „ „ 6
Convulsions 4
Brain, Diseases of the, 2; Apoplexy 1 3
Laryngitis 1; Spasm of the Glottis 1
Scrofula 1 3
" Found Dead," &c. 4
Total 26
The accidental and violent deaths were caused as follows:—
Falls 7
Burns 1
Drowned 4
Suffocation 16
Cut throat 2
Pistol shot 2
Hanging 2
Run over by railway train 1
Wilful Murder 4
" Accident," " Violence " 2
Total 41
With respect to the accidental or violent deaths it may be remarked
that the 16 from suffocation were of infants and due to
" accident." One of the newly born infants was found in a box
and another up a chimney; these being, as were some of the
others, the children of single women. On four newly-born