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tinguished from the deaths due to rheumatism without such complication.
Gout was the cause of 10 deaths and Packets of 6, an
equal number from both diseases in the two sub-districts.
Cancer, Malignant Disease, was accountable for 119 deaths;
86 in the Town sub-district, and. 33 in Brompton. Cancer
appears to be on the increase in the country generally: possibly,
however, some portion of the increase in deaths classified to this
cause may be due to more accurate diagnosis. The deaths in
Kensington from this cause in the previous ten years, were 74,
69, 88, 79, 95, 90, 112, 92, 128, and 117. Deaths from cancer
are usually more numerous, proportionally to population, in the
Brompton sub-district, than in the relatively poorer Town subdistrict.
Cancer, in fact, is quite as prevalent, probably even more
prevalent, amongst well-to-do people, than iu the poorer classes.
The parts of the body most commonly affected are the viscera or
internal organs; in women, the uterus and the breast; the malady,
moreover, being for the most part one of later life. Ninety-nine
of the deaths took place at ages above 45. It is right to mention
that in Table 3 (Appendix), the deaths assigned to cancer have
been classified to cancer irrespective of the question whether any
other disease was named in the medical certificate, or whether
cancer was the immediate cause of death.
Purpura, Hemorrhagic Diathesis, was the cause of one death;
Anaemia, Chlorosis, and Leucoeythcemia were the causes of four
deaths; Glycosuria, Diabetes Mellitws, was the cause of 10
deaths, and of an equal number in each sub-district.
The remaining diseases in this Class belong to the group
known as
Tubercular, and they are amongst the most important with
which sanitarians have to deal; the degree to which they prevail in
a given district being regarded, in some sort, as a test of the
healthiness or otherwise of the population. Generally hereditary,
these diseases are nevertheless susceptible of considerable amelioration
under improved sanitary arrangements. Scrofula is unknown
in Hygieapolis. Pure air and sunlight, efficient drainage
and its corollary, a dry subsoil; good food, warm clothing, and