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Order 1.—Diathetic Diseases. 26 deaths.
The fatal diseases were:—Gout, 2; Dropsy, 5; and Cancer, 19.
The deaths from the latter were spread in nearly proportions in the
three Sub-Districts.
Order 2.—Tubercular. 165 deaths.
Scrofula caused 10 deaths.
Tabes Mesenterica (or Mesenteric Disease).—8, all children.
Tubercular Meningitis (Water on the Brain).—20 children.
Phthisis (or Consumption).—127. The deaths from this disease
were nearly four times as many in St. Giles, South, as in St. George's,
Bloomsbury, which may be accounted for by the greater density of the
population in the former Sub-District.
Scrofulous disease is more rife amongst the children of people living
in crowded dwellings.
CLASS III.—LOCAL DISEASES.
This great class, which is sub-divided into eight orders, named
according to the systems or organs of the body which they affect,
accounted for 569 deaths—nearly half the total number of deaths
registered from all causes.
Order 1.—Nervous System.
Caused 103 deaths. The most important diseases of the order were
Apoplexy, 22; Paralysis, 25; Convulsions, 21 (all children); and
other Brain Diseases, 29.
Order 2.—Organs of Circulation.
Total deaths 45. Aneurism, 3; Heart Disease, 42. About the
average number.
Order 3.—Respiratory Organs.
Total deaths 383. Of these Bronchitis must be credited with no
less than 303; of which 98 were children under 5 years of age.
The cold weather which prevailed throughout the greater portion of
the year doubtless caused this excessive mortality—98 more than the
preceding year.
Pleurisy was fatal in 6 cases.
Asthma the same number.
Pneumonia (inflammation of the lungs) carried off 59. Only 7 of
these deaths occurred between the ages of 5 and 40.
Order 4.—Digestive Organs.
Total deaths 24. The only important disease to mention in point of
number of deaths is Liver Disease, which was fatal to 12; being onehalf
the number of deaths for the entire order.