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logical condition which would enable one to say positively
that a child had suffered, still less that it had died, from
convulsions.
2. Diseases of the Organs of Special Sense {e.g.,
of Ear, Eye, Nose) are comprised in this Order. Two
deaths were registered from these causes.
3. Circulatory System.—The deaths due to diseases
of the organs of circulation, heart and blood vessels, were
198, against 196, 188 and 220 in 1888-89-90 : 156 were registered
in the Town sub-district, and 42 in Brompton. The
quarterly numbers were 76, 53, 27 and 42. To specified forms
of disease 64 deaths were assigned, viz., Pericarditis 7, Acute
Endocarditis 3, Valvular Diseases of Heart 43. Aneurism
was the cause of 9 deaths, and Embolism, Thrombosis, of 2.
Other Diseases of Heart caused 133 deaths, and Other Disease
of Blood Vessels, 1 death.
4. Respiratory System.—The deaths from diseases
of the chest, Phthisis being excluded, were 853, against 622,
470 and 745 in 1888-89-90, and 27.8 per cent, of total deaths.
Of this number 708 were registered in the Town sub-district
and 145 in Brompton. The quarterly numbers were, 342
and 240 in the first and fourth, or colder quarters, and 215
and 56 in the second and third, or warmer quarters. The
deaths under five years of age were 274 or 32.1 per cent,
(against 426, 32.4 and 35.3 per cent, in 1888-89-90); and at
fifty-five and upwards, 380, or 44.5 per cent, of the
whole number (against 39.2, 39.4 and 41.2 per cent in
1888-89-90). These diseases are thus seen to be most
fatal at the extremes of life. The prevalence of them
varies considerably in different years, depending on the
degree of cold in winter and the general character of that
season: they are always most fatal when fog, especially
"Eondon fog," is associated with low temperature. But, as