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46. Of the total, 152 belong to the Town sub-district and 50 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 of death: but all such associated
diseases have been disregarded in the preparation of Table
III.; for when phthisis is 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 total deaths were 170, viz., 128 in the
Town sub-district, and 42 in Brompton. Premature Birth was
the assigned cause of 56 deaths, 16 of them in the Brompton
sub-district; Atelectasis of 7, five of them in the Town subdistrict;
and Congenital Malformation of 9. Old Age was
the registered cause of 98 deaths, all but one of them at ages
over sixty-five: between sixty-five and seventy-five there were
20 deaths so classified; 37 between seventy-five and eighty-five,
and 40 at eighty-five and upwards.
Class VI.—Local Diseases.
The diseases in this Class, comprising eleven Orders,
named after the systems or organs to which the diseases
relate, were accountable for 1,452 deaths, or 50.4 per cent. of
the deaths from all causes: 1,130 were registered in the Town
sub-district, and 322 in Brompton: 372 were of children under
five years of age. All of these totals fall considerably below
the numbers recorded in 1891, when the deaths from local
diseases were 1,690,