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Effects of Vaccination, Hydrophobia, Glanders, Splenic Fever,
&c.; but no deaths were registered from any of these causes.
Order 5, Venereal Diseases, includes Syphilis, Gonorrhoea,
and Stricture of the Urethra. Syphilis was the registered cause
of 26 deaths as against 15 in 1884; all but one in the Town
sub-district: 17 of the deaths were of children under five years of
age. If the truth could be ascertained, it would probably appear
that this Protean malady was accountable, directly or indirectly,
for a still larger number of deaths. There was one death from
stricture of the urethra.
Order 6, Septic Diseases. This order comprises Erysipelas,
Pyœmia, Septieœmia, and Puerperal Fever, the total deaths
registered being 40, compared with 38 in 1884.
Erysipelas was the cause of 26 deaths, 21 of them in the
Town sub-district, and 9 of them of children under one year of
age.
Pyœmia and Septicœmia were the causes of 7 deaths, two of
them in the Brompton sub-district.
Puerperal Fever was the registered cause of 7 deaths, as
against 26 and 14 in 1883 and 1884; two of them in the Town
sub-district. Five of the deaths were of women between 15 and
25 years of age, and two between 25 and 35. In addition to
these 7 deaths, nine deaths, eight of them in the Town subdistrict,
were registered as having occurred in "childbirth," as
against 3 and 7 in the two preceding years. Puerperal fever is a
communicable disease depending on "blood poisoning," whereas
other causes of death connected with childbirth, are, so to say,
accidental, e.g., hæmorrhage ("flooding"). The deaths registered
as having been caused by disease and accidents associated with
parturition (16) were equal to four per 1,000 live births.
Class 2.—Parasitic Diseases
Includes Thrush and Other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases, 6
deaths, five of them in the Town district, and all under one year
of age; and "Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic
Diseases," one death.