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PRIVATION.
Five infants died from want of breast milk; and tho following
wore the subject of Coroner's inquests:—
Sex.
Age.
Cause of Death.
Male
73
Want of proper food and nourishment.
Female
57
Pneumonia, accelerated by want
and destitution.
Male
34
Disease of lungs, accelerated by
want of proper nourishment.
Infant
5 weeks
Pneumonia and exposure.
CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASE.
Under this head 523 deaths were roturned; of these Cancer
caused 71. The chief organs affected wore Uterus, 15; Stomach,
13—six males, six females; Liver, 9—five females, four males;
Tongue, 7—two females, five males; Neck, 6—all males except
one; Breast, 3—all females; Rectum, 3—two females, one male.
Nino others were simply returned as Cancer, six of whom were
females and three males, and one each as Cancer of Bladder,
(Esophagus, Ovary, and Abdomon.
TUBERCULAR DISEASE.
The total number of deaths from diseases grouped under this
head was 515, of which Phthisis caused 282, about ten per cent. of
the total deaths from all causes; in eight the immediate cause of
death was stated to bo Hœmorrhago from the Lungs.
The deaths from the tubercular group formed thirteen per cent.
of the mortality from all causes, and corresponded to a rate of 2.9
per thousand population.