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Order 1. Diathetic.-The deaths from the maladies included
in this order were 83, viz., Dropsy, 6; Mortification, 3; and Cancer,
74. Fifty-eight of the deaths from the last-named disease occurred
in the Town sub-district, and 16 in Brompton. Ten of
the deaths occurred at ages between 35 and 45; 17 in the next
decade; 19 between 55 and 65, and 25 at ages above 65.
Order 2. Tubercular.-The diseases included in this order
are among the most important with which sanitarians have
to deal. Generally of an hereditary character they are nevertheless
capable of great amelioration, if not of ultimate extirpation like
some others, by improved sanitary arrangements. Scrofulous
maladies are unknown in Hygeiapolis! Light, dry air, efficient
drainage, warm clothing, good food, and sobriety are powerful antidotes
to the bane of tubercle, which is fostered by the oppositesby
filth and squalor, by cold and nakedness, by vice, by want of the
necessaries of life, by over-crowding in ill-constructed houses, and
by all conditions inimical to the preservation of a typical condition
of health. The cases that occur in the well-to-do classes
of society are too often traceable to the direct influence of
heredity. Of the several diseases grouped in this order, Scrofula is
set down as the cause of 23 deaths, (15 under five years of age,)
only 3 in the Brompton sub-district. Tales mesenterica was
the cause in 67 cases, (all but one in the first year of life), 15 in
Brompton. Hydrocephalus (water on the brain) and Tubercular
Meningitis killed 76 persons (16 in Brompton), viz., under 1
year, 29 ; between 1 and 2, 23; between 2 and 5, 18; and between
5 and 15, 6. More than half the deaths in this order, however,
were due to Phthisis (consumption) 277, viz.,-213 in the
Town sub-district, and 64 in Brompton, irrespective, of course,
of the deaths of non-parishioners which occurred at the Hospital
for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest. The deaths at ages were :
—under 15, 16 ; between 15 and 25, 49; between 25 and 35, 87;
between 35 and 45, 52; between 45 and 55, 48; above 55, 25.
LOCAL DISEASES
Caused 1,217 deaths under the several orders following:-
1. Nervous System, 285 deaths; 227 and 58 in the two subdistricts
respectively, viz., Cephalitis (inflammation of the brain),
14 ; Apoplexy, 71 ; Paralysis, 51; Insanity, 1; Epilepsy (fits), 9 ;
Convulsions, 81, and "Brain disease," 58. Apoplexy and paralysis
are diseases of late life, as convulsions is of infancy. The deaths
from apoplexy occurred at ages as follows:-Under 35, 8 ; between
35 and 45, 9; between 45 and 55, 10 ; between 55 and 65, 11 ;
between 65 and 75, 17 ; and above 75, 16. From paralysis there
was only 1 death under 35; 4 between 35 and 45; 3 between
45 and 55; 12 between 55 and 65; and 31 at ages over 65.
Convulsions on the other hand killed 80 children under 5 years of
age, of whom 62 were in the first year of life. The mortality from
"brain disease" (so described) was pretty equally distributed