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CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.
Under this head 531 deaths were returned, of these Cancer
caused 57; the chief organs affected were— Stomach and Intestines
18 (6 females and 12 males), Uterus 12, Liver 8 (3 females
and 5 males); Female breast 5. Twelve others were returned as
Cancer or Malignant Tumour without any locality being specified.
TUBERCULAR DISEASE.
The total number of deaths in this group of diseases was 422;
of which Phthisis caused 304, exactly ten per cent, of the total
deaths from all causes. This is about the usual proportion. In
sixteen instances the immediate cause of death was stated to be
bleeding from tho lungs.
The deaths from the Tubercular group of diseases formed nearly
fourtoon per cent, of the mortality from all causes, and corresponded
to a rate of 3.24 per thousand population.
DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASE.
Seventy-six infants died because they were prematurely born.
Eight others could not live as their lungs never properly expanded ;
and eleven were so deformod as to render them incapable of continuing
their existence; five of these had deformed hearts, three
deformed spines, one had a hare lip, another a deformed bladder,
and the remaining one an imperforate anus.
Eighty-nine old people died from natural decay.
DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.
Undor this head 376 deaths were returned— twelve per cent, of
tho total deaths— a mortality of nearly three per thousand
population.
Inflammatory disease of tho brain caused 67 deaths, and 151
persons died from chronic brain affections, such as Softening and
Paralysis.
Ono hundred and twenty-one children died from Convulsions, 95
of these were infants.