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and sixty-five; viz., 28, 47, 64, 64 and 20 in the five
decades consecutively : 7 deaths were registered at ages over
sixty-five. The quarterly numbers were 60, 57, 50 and 70.
Of the total, 192 belong to the Town sub-district and 45 to
Brompton. The deaths from tubercular diseases were, proportionately,
not nearly as numerous in Brompton as in the
Town sub-district. 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 ot 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 tocal deaths were 202, viz., 153 in the
Town sub-district, and 49 in Brompton. Premature Birth was
the assigned cause of 61 deaths, 22 of them in the Brompton
sub-district; Atelectasis of 8—all of them in the Town subdistrict;
and Congenital Malformation of 10. Old Age was
the registered cause of 123 deaths, 121 of them at ages over
sixty-five: between seventy-five and eighty-five there were
54 deaths so classified, and 44 at eighty-five and upwards. •
Class VI. Local Diseases.
The diseases in this Class, containing eleven Orders,
named after the systems or organs to which the diseases
relate, were accountable for 1690 deaths, or 55 per cent, of