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OTHER ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
Rheumatism caused six deaths, five of which were from the acute
form of the disease; in each the immediate cause of death was heart
affection. Two deaths were caused by Erysipelas, and one by Quinsy.
ENTHETIC DISEASES.
Syphilis caused fifteen deaths, all except one being young children,
eight of whom were under three months; the disease in each instance
was inherited. One death was referred to "Glanders and
Gangrene of fauces the man was a dealer in catsmeat living in
Three Colt Lane. I could not trace the origin of the disease, but I
suppose he must have contracted it from handling, in the way of
business, the flesh of some animal which had suffered from Glanders
during life.
Privation caused six deaths; or to be more correct, these, which were
all the subject of enquiry, were returned by the Coroner as from some
such cause as old age accelerated by privation.
To Alcoholism are attributed nine deaths. Two of them were from
delirium tremens; the others, which were in every instance except
one registered upon the Coroner's certificate, were mostly returned as
from some natural cause "accelerated" by intemperance: one was
Syncope, two Congestion of the brain, and one Apoplexy.
CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASE.
596 deaths were registered as from diseases in this class, which
includes the two orders, Diathetic and Tubercular. Cancer caused
53 deaths; Gout, four; and Mortification (including Noma), eight.
To Tubercular diseases were attributed 426 deaths, of which the
larger number of 324 were from Phthisis alone. Amongst these,
however, are included the non-residents who died at the Victoria
Park Chest Hospital. Hydrocephalus caused 97 deaths; of these 78
were from the acute form of the disease, and 19 from the chronic; all
these except eight were young children, who are particularly obnoxious
to this disease, and to whom it is almost invariably fatal. The total
number of deaths from Tubercular disease, excluding those from
Hydrocephalus, was 426, being 13.8 per cent. of the total number of