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this cause, may be due to more accurate diagnosis. The deaths
in Kensington from this cause in the previous ten years, were
112, 92, 128, 117, 119, 128, 117, 121, 138 and 125 respectvely.
Deaths from cancer are usually more numerous, proportionately
to population, in the Brompton sub-district than in the
relatively poorer Town sub-district (but were not in 1891),
cancer being quite as prevalent, probably even more prevalent,
amongst well-to-do people, than in 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.
Thus 114 of the deaths took place at ages above forty-five,
and 9 between thirty-five and forty-five. It is proper to
mention that in Table III. (Appendix) the]deaths attributed
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.
Ancemia was the cause of 4 deaths: Glycosuria, Diabetes
Mellitus, of 14 deaths. No death was registered from Purpura,
Hemorrhagic Diathesis.
The remaining diseases in this Class belong to the group
designated—
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 temperance in all
things, are powerful antidotes to the bane of tubercle, which