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Phthisis alone. In this number of deaths, however,
are included those of patients in the Victoria Park
Chest Hospital, many of whom were only temporarily
resident in the district for purposes of treatment.
Of these 372 deaths (the highest mortality from any
single disease), 351 were amongst persons over five
years of age. Young children, as a rule, if they are the
subjects of Tuberculosis, suffer from Tabes Mesenterica,
which is a form of the same disease, but affecting the
glands of the bowels instead of the lungs. This disease
caused 89 deaths, all except four amongst young
children.
Hydrocephalus, which includes Tubercular Meningitis
(an almost invariably fatal disease) caused 26 deaths;
this is another children's malady, for all, except one,
were under five years of age.
The total deaths caused by Tubercular diseases,
exclusive of those from Hydrocephalus, were 156 out
of every thousand, a mortality of 3.6 per thousand
persons living at all ages.
Class III.— LOCAL DISEASES.
This group includes the diseases of the various organs
of the body, and is the most comprehensive of the six
classes ; the total deaths under this head were 1,279,
of which 552 were those of young children.
Order I.— Nervous System. 400 deaths; of these
Cephalitis, or Inflammation of the Brain and its Membranes,
caused 57 deaths, all except thirteen amongst