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Tuberculosis, Scrofula," the total being 40 (of which 22 occurred
under five years of age), including 6 registered in the Brompton subdistrict.
Tabes Mesenterica, popularly known as " consumption
of the bowels," was the cause of 43 deaths, including 6 in
Brompton, all of them save one under five years of age, and 32 under
one year. Tubercular Meningitis and Hydrocephalus (water on
the brain) were the causes of 53 deaths, 11 of them in Brompton,
and 34 under five years of age. Phthisis, popularly known as
"decline" or "consumption," was the cause of 233 deaths; 6
between five and fifteen years of age, and 221 between fifteen and
sixty-five; viz., 33, 44, 75, 50 and 22 in the five decades consecutively:
6 deaths were registered at ages over sixty-five. The
quarterly numbers were 96, 51, 31 and 55. Of the total, 174belong
to the Town sub-district and 59 to Brompton. The deaths from
tubercular diseases were, proportionately, nearly as numerous in
Brompton as in the Town sub-district, which is unusual, those
from phthisis being even more numerous in proportion to population.
It is probable that the deaths ascribed to tubercular
diseases do not comprise all the deaths originating in the
tubercular diathesis, and that many deaths of children classified
to Premature Birth, Atrophy, Debility, Convulsions, &c., were
primarily due to the scrofulous taint. In numerous instances
some other disease, e.g., of the lungs, as bronchitis, pneumonia,
&c., was associated with phthisis in medical certificates of the
cause of death; but all such associated diseases have been disregarded
in the preparation of Table III.; for when phthisis was
returned, the death is classified to that heading, it being assumed
that the tubercular diathesis was underlying the other disease,
and was in fact the primary cause of death.
Class V.— Developmental Diseases.
In this Class the total deaths were 185, viz., 152 in the
Town sub-district, and 33 in Brompton. Premature Birth was
the assigned cause of 68 deaths, 17 of them in the Brompton
sub-district; Atelectasis of 13—11 of them in the Town sub-