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through the whole period of human life, the deaths being rather
more numerous in the earliest and, especially, in the latest years.
2. Organs of Circulation.-Total deaths, 162, viz., 133 in
the Town, and 29 in Brompton.
Pericarditis (inflammation of the heart-bag), 4; Heart Disease,
162; Aneurism (a disease of the great arteries), 3. The heart diseases
occurring in the course of rheumatic fever are included under
the head of rheumatism. These are special to no particular period
of life: but are most common in youth and early adult life.
Twenty-two of the deaths from heart disease occurred under 35
years of age. In the four decades following the deaths were
respectively 18, 26, 38, and 34. Above 75 years of age the deaths
were 24. Ninety-six of the deaths took place in the two winter
quarters, and 66 in the summer quarters.
Order 3. Respiratory Organs.—Total deaths from diseases of
these important organs, 577 (viz., in the Town district, 480, and in
Brompton 97) including Laryngitis, 9; Pleurisy, 8; Asthma, 16 ;
and 'Lung disease' 43. The principal causes of death were
Bronchitis, 326, and Pneumonia (inflammation of the lungs), 175.
Both these diseases are most fatal in the earliest and latest stages of
human life, and the number of deaths is always greatest in cold
weather—especially when this is associated with winds and fogs.
These facts are illustrated by the figures in Table 3 (Appendix)
from which we learn that the deaths from Bronchitis and Pneumonia
were 79, and 54 respectively in the first year of life, and 153
and 54 at ages above 55. The deaths from Bronchitis at all
ages between 1 and 55, were 94, of which 64 occurred between 1
and 5; and from Pneumonia 67, of which 38 likewise occurred between
1 and 5. The deaths from all these diseases in the first and
fourth (winter) quarters were 403, and in the second and third
(summer) quarters, 174.
Order 4. Digestive Organs.—The deaths from the diseases of
the organs principally concerned in digestion were 106; viz., 74 in
the Town, and 32 in the Brompton sub-district. The number of
deaths from the diseases of the several organs may be seen in
Table 3 (Appendix). It will suffice here to say that affections of
the stomach and intestines killed 52 persons, Liver diseases, 48;
Spleen diseases, 3; and Ascites (dropsy), 3.
Order 5. Urinary Organs.-57 deaths, viz., Inflammation of
the kidneys (Nephritis), 3 ; Kidney Disease, 15; Inflammation of the
Bladder (cystitis), 5; Diabetes, 7; Stone (calculus) 1, and Albuminuria
(Bright's disease—Nephria), 26.
Order 6. Organs of Generation.-12 deaths, viz., Ovarian
Dropsy 6, and Uterus disease, &c., 6.
Order 7. Organs of Locomotion.—Two deaths from "joint
disease