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CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASE.
Under this head 504 deaths were returned, of these Cancer
caused 71; the chief organs affected were—Uterus 15, Liver 8
(3 males and 5 females), Breast 6 (all females), (Esophagus 3
(2 males and 1 female), Stomach and Intestines 24 (18 females and
6 males).
TUBERCULAR DISEASE.
Tho total number of deaths, in this group, was 406; of which
Phthisis caused 276, nearly nine and a half per cent. of the total
mortality from all causes. In 13 instances the immediate cause of
death was stated to be bleeding from the lungs.
The deaths from tho Tubercular group of diseases formed nearly
fourteen per cent. of the mortality from all causes, and corresponded
to a rate of 3.2 per thousand population.
DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASE.
Eighty-five infants died, because they wore prematurely born.
Nine others could not live, as their lungs never properly expanded;
and fifteen were so deformed, as to render them incapable of prolonging
their existence beyond a very limited period, of these, five
had deformed hearts, two deformed spines, two hare-lip, two
imperforate anus, and one a deformed brain.
Ninety old people died from natural decay.
DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.
Under this head 329 deaths wero returned—eleven per oent. of
the total deaths—a mortality of two and a half per thousand
population.
Inflammatory diseases of the brain caused 67 deaths, and 142
persons died from Chronio Brain affeotions, such as Softening,
Paralysis, and Insanity. One hundred and three children died
from Convulsions, 85 of these were infants.
The Convulsive diseases of infants, a group which, in addition to
those just mentioned, includes Hydrocephalus and Dentition),
caused 138 deaths—a mortality of 27.66 per thousand births, or
nearly ten per cent. of tho total infantile deaths from all causes.—
(See Table IV.)