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this case to the Metropolitan Board of Works, and a
veterinary surgeon was sent (under the powers conferred
by the Contagious Diseases Animals Act) to examine the
horses in the mews, but no evidence of the disease was
detected. No other case either in man or horse was heard
of in the district.
II.—Pulmonary Diseases.
(Excluding Phthisis.)
The pulmonary class of diseases was, as usual, the
heaviest in the death-rate, causing no less than 256 deaths,
and was equal to a rate of 5.4 per 1,000 of the population.
Bronchitis alone was fatal to 195, of these 73 were
children under 5 years, and 77 were adults over 60 years
of age, again showing that the fatality was greatest in the
extremes of age.
Pneumonia (inflammation of the lungs) also caused a
heavy death list of 51.
The other deaths were attributed to laryngitis, pleurisy,
and asthma.
Ill—Tubercular Diseases.
Phthisis, Scrofula, Rickets, and Mesenteric Disease.
This class produced a total of 124 deaths, equal to a rate
of 2.6 per 1,000 of the population.
Phthisis, or consumption of the lungs, was, of course, the
principal disease, and it destroyed 109 persons of the total
deaths.
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