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Class 5.—Developmental Diseases.
In this Class the total deaths were 155, viz., 118 in the
Town sub-district, and 37 in Brompton Premature Birth was
the assigned cause of 55 deaths; Atelectasis of 3, and
Congenital Malformation of 11. Old Age was the registered cause
of 86 deaths, 81 of them at ages over 65 : between 75 and 85
there were 50 deaths so classified, and 23 at 85 and upwards.
Class 6.—Local Diseases.
The diseases in this ('lass, containing eleven Orders, named
after the systems or organs to which the diseases relate, were
accountable for 1,401 deaths, or 49.6 per cent, of the deaths
from all causes: 1,106 were registered in the Town sub-district,
and 295 in Brompton; 39.5 were of children under five years
of age.
1. Nervous System.—Diseases of the nervous system
were the registered causes of 310 deaths (against 288,
302, and 289 in 1885-6-7); viz., 243 in the Town subdistrict,
and 67 in Brompton: 71 of the deaths were of children
under five years of age. The quarterly numbers were 72, 67,
86, and 85. The fatal diseases were Inflammation of Brain or
Membranes, 21 deaths ; Apoplexy, Softening of Brain, Hemiplegia,
Brain-Paralysis, 147 (111 in the Town sub-district, 36 in
Brompton, and 134 at ages over 45); Insanity, General Paralysis
of the Insane, 1; Epilepsy, 15, Convulsions 54 (all under five, and
47 under one year); Laryngismus Stridulus (spasm of glottis), 5 ;
Disease of Spinal Cord, Paraplegia, Paralysis - Agitans,
12; Other Diseases of Nervous System, 52. Convtdsions
as a cause of death is frequently associated, in medical certificates,
with definite diseases, and with "teething." The
convulsions being a symptom only, such deaths are classified to
the primary disease named, or to dentition, as the case may be
Laryngismus Stridulus (spasm of the glottis), included in the
new classification with diseases of the nervous system, is not