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district,; and Congenital Malformation of 6. Old Age was the
registered cause of 98 deaths, 96 of them at ages over sixty-five:
between seventy-five and eighty-five there were 39 deaths so
classified, and 33 at eighty-five and upwards.
Class VI.—Local Diseases.
The diseases in this Glass, containing eleven Orders named
after the systems or organs to which the diseases relate, were
accountable for 1536 deaths, or 52 per cent. of the deaths from
all causes: 1236 were registered in the Town sub-district, and
300 in Brompton: 418 were of children under five years of age.
All of these totals considerably exceed the numbers recorded in
1889.
1. Nervous System.—Diseases of the nervous system
were the registered causes of 321 deaths (against 289, 310 and
318 in 1887-8-9); viz., 265 in the Town sub-district and 56 in
Brompton: 111 of the deaths were of children under five years
of age. The quarterly numbers were 91, 68, 76 and 86. The
fatal diseases were Inflammation of Brain or Membranes, 47
deaths; Apoplexy, Softening of Brain, Hemiplegia, Brain
Paralysis, 144 (118 in the Town sub-district, 26 in Brompton,
and 122 at ages over forty-five); Insanity, General Paralysis of
the Insane, 4; Epilepsy, 13; Convulsions, 67 (all under five, and
60 under one year); Laryngismus Stridulus (spasm of glottis),
5; Disease of Spinal Cord, Paraplegia, Paralysis Agitans,
13; Other Diseases of Nervous System, 28. Convulsions
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 sometimes
assigned as the cause of death of children "found dead
in bed." In the absence of other apparent cause of death, the