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periods to all measures tending to the maintenance of health, such as
the use of clothing of suitable warmth, and a sufficiency of wholesome
food.
Persons who are attacked by influenza should at once seek rest,
warmth, and medical treatment, and they should bear in mind that the
risk of relapse, with dangerous complications, constitutes a chief danger
of the disease.
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II.—Constitutional Diseases.
This important class of diseases comprises the causes
of 199 deaths, including 27 of children under the age of
five years. Cancer was accountable for 29 deaths,
10 more than in the preceding year; this disease appears
to be on the increase generally. The Tubercular group of
this class includes phthisis, scrofula, rickets, tabes, and
other forms of tuberculosis. Of these phthisis or consumption
was the cause of 124 deaths, 105 of which occurred
between the ages of 25 and 65.
III.—Local Diseases.
The diseases in this class, which comprises eleven
orders, caused 442 deaths. The largest number of deaths
were in the circulatory and respiratory orders, in the
former heart disease was fatal in 52, and in the latter
bronchitis, pneumonia, and other diseases of the respiratory
system destroyed 214.
The extreme cold weather which prevailed during
January and February were mainly responsible for the
increased mortality in chest diseases over that of the
preceding year.
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