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latter period of life, and Convulsions, which is almost exclusively
a disease (or a symptom of disease) in infancy. Apoplexy
caused 59 deaths, and paralysis 45; of these 101 deaths, 74
belong to the Town sub-district, and 30 to Brompton. Convulsions
were fatal to 77 persons, 75 of them below the age of five
years, viz., 47 under one year,'21 between 1 and 2, and 7 between 2
and 5 years. Taking the nervous diseases altogether, it appears
that the quarterly numbers of deaths were 77, 66, 73, and 71.
Apoplexy and Brain disease were about equally fatal in the two
halves of the year ; but paralysis which caused only 16 deaths in
the first half, was fatal in 29 cases in the second half; while convulsions
was much more fatal in the first half (48 deaths) than in
the second (29 deaths). Apoplexy was returned in 40 cases
under 65, and in 14 over that age, whereas the deaths from paralysis
occurred in 17 cases only under 65 years, and in 28 over that
age.
Order 2. Organs of Circulation.—Total deaths 146; 107
in the Town sub-district, and 39 in Brompton, viz., Pericarditis,
5, and Aneurism, 3 (all in the Town sub-district). Heart-disease, 138;
99 and 39 in the Town and Brompton respectively. (The deaths
from heart disease as a complication of rheumatic fever are included
in class 1, order 1, under the head of Rheumatism.) The deaths
from heart-disease, &c., included here, occurred in the several
quarters as follows: 45, 33, 34, and 34; twenty took place below
25 years of age, between 25 and 55 there were 35 deaths, and 91
above 55.
Order 3. Respiratory Organs.—The deaths from the diseases
of these organs were 582, viz., 482 in the Town sub-district, and
100 in Brompton. The quarterly numbers were 224, 138, 64, and
156. The deaths due to the several diseases were Laryngitis and
Spasm of the Glottis, 18, Bronchitis, 315, Pneumonia, 197, Asthma, 13,
and "Lung Disease" 39. Of the deaths from bronchitis and
pneumonia respectively, 138 and 125 occurred below the age of
five years, 44 and 66 between 5—55, and 133 and 28 above 55
years. Thus from these two most common diseases of the breathing
organs, the deaths were, as usual, most numerous at the
earliest and the latest periods of life: of 512 deaths at all ages,
424 having occurred under 5, and above 55, years of age. The
deaths from all diseases of these organs were, in accordance with
rule, most numerous in the winter quarters, although owing to the
mildness of the weather in the fourth quarter the difference was
not so marked as usual. Still the deaths in the cold first and
fourth quarters of the year exceeded those registered in the
summer quarters by 178, the respective numbers being 380
and 202.
Order 4. Digestive Organs.—The diseases of the organs
principally concerned in the process of food-digestion were fatal