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Iation, or 8.2 per cent, of the total number of deaths from all causes.
Order II.—Organs of Circulation, causing 121 deaths, all,
except one, over the age of five years. The 113 deaths from Heart
Disease include several which were complications of Rheumatic Fever.
Order III.—Respiratory Organs. Total deaths, 547: of these
Laryngitis was the cause of 14 deaths; Pulmonary Disease, other than
Phthisis, 533, a mortality of 41 per thousand population, or 17-8 per
cent, of the total deaths from all causes; of these Bronchitis
caused 286, and Inflammation of the Lungs, 192. The mortality from
diseases of this Order, being much affected by temperature, was, as
usual, very unequally distributed over the four quarters of the year,
the first and fourth shewing the highest. The following Table is an
analysis of the deaths from all diseases of the respiratory organs,
except Phthisis:—
TABLE H.
Quarter ending
Deaths of
Children
under five
years.
Adults.
Elderly
Persons
over
fifty-five.
Total.
Mean
Temperature.
March 31
71
46
66
183
42.30
June 30
58
26
32
116
51.9
September 30
38
18
25
8l
58.5
December 31
96
32
39
167
45.0
Total
263
122
162
547
49.4
Mean
Temperature
for the year.
Order IV.—Digestive Organs.—The diseases of these organs
caused 84 deaths; of these Liver Disease, including Hepatitis and
Jaundice, caused 30, all over the age of 35 years, except three infants
a few weeks old. Enteritis and Peritonitis each caused 14 deaths;
Ulceration of the Bowels, 6; Stricture of the same, 4; and various diseases
of the Stomach, 3.
Order V.—Urinary Organs.—Total deaths, 42; of these
Bright's Disease caused 19; Diabetes, 8; Inflammation of the Kidneys, 3
Stone in the Bladder, 1.
Order VI.—Organs of Generation.—Total deaths, 6; made
up of Ovarian Dropsy, 2; and various diseases of the Uterus, 4.