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they would be true if the same birth-rates and death-rates
were maintained uniformly from year to year, and, if at the
same time, no immigration or emigration took place, and the
variations in the numbers of the populations depended only
on the differences between the births and deaths.
Tables IX. and X. give between them the mortality
returns of the Parish for the year 1891, according to sex,
to age, to disease, and also according to District and to
season; Table IX. comprising the deaths that actually
occurred in the Parish; Table X., those that occurred in
Institutions or elsewhere outside the Parish.
There are not many matters revealed by these Tables
which call for comment. Deaths referred to accidental or
other forms of violence, amounted to 100, or 31 less than
were registered in the previous year. Deaths attributable
to premature birth or defective vitality, and to convulsions
of infancy, collectively numbered 462, or 42 less than in
1890. To child-birth, 33 deaths were attributed, which
number is exactly equal to that of the previous year's
Report. Of these, 6 are said to have been due to puerperal
fever. Thirty-two persons were stated to have died of
either erysipelas, pyæmia, or carbuncle; the deaths due to
these affections in the previous year were 31.
Tubercular diseases, including pulmonary consumption,
caused 671 deaths, against 625 in 1890; and to cancer, 154
deaths were attributed.
Inflammatory affections of the respiratory organs
caused 1,184 deaths, or 139 less than in 1890; and
diarrhoea, 142, or two less than in 1890.