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II.—Constitutional and Tubeucular, Diseases.
The diseases of this important class, which include
malignant cancer, tabes mesenterica, meningitis, phthisis,
and other forms of scrofula and tubercular disease,
accounted for 186 of the total deaths, the majority
occurring between the ages of 25 and 65. One hundred
and twenty nine of these were due to phthisis or
consumption of the lungs, and 22 to cancer.
Local Diseases.
There were 347 deaths in this class, which comprises
11 orders, viz., diseases of nervous, circulatory, respiratory,
digestive, lymphatic, urinary, generative, locomotive, and
integumentary systems, also diseases of organs of special
sense and accidents of childbirth.
The diseases of 2 systems, viz., the circulatory and
respiratory, accounted for 181.
The greatest fatality was again amongst the very
young and old, viz., 95 children under 5 years of age
and 77 aged.
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