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92, 128, 117, 119, 128, 117, 121, 138, 125 and 127 respectively.
Deaths from cancer are usually more numerous, proportionately
to population, in the Brompton sub-district than in the
relatively poorer Town sub-district, 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 108 of the
deaths took place at ages above forty-five, and 17 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.
Anæmia was the cause of 7 deaths: Glycosuria. Diabetes
Mellitus, of 19 deaths. One 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
is fostered by dirt and squalor, by cold and nakedness, by
vice and intemperance, by the want of the proper necessaries
of life, by overcrowding in ill-constructed, unventilated and