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Varied lung and chest affections were the most fatal entries: their death rate was
5.1 per thousand, while the correlative London rate was 5.002; the brain affections,
chiefly convulsive diseases of infants and apoplexy, came next, with a death rate of 2.6
per 1000, its child rate being 1.8; heart diseases followed, with a death rate of 1.1 per
1000; then stomach ailments with one of 0.9, and kidney complaints with a rate of
0.433. The rest of this class gave merely small decimal rates. The child local rate
was 3.02 per thousand. Little difference existed between all these and the corresponding
London figures.
Class IV.—Developmental Diseases.
In this class the deaths due to entrance into life, malnutrition, arrest of growth, and
natural decay, gave a rate of 2.4 Per thousand. A death in child birth was noted,
making with the solitary puerperal fever case already mentioned, two instances only of
death due to maternity. The old age death rate was 0.7 per thousand, and the
children's developmental death rate 1.1 per 1000, 50 per cent. of this from atrophy
and want of vital power.
Class V.—Violent Deaths.
Out of a "Violent Death" rate of 1.3 per thousand, the "drowned" death rate
(mostly of non-parishioners) was 0.89 per thousand. The other casualties were due to
street and dock accidents, and to two instances of "overlying." No murder or execution
happened in your district, but there was one suicide.
There were nine eases of death "non specified or ill defined," and these were
mostly, if not all, buried on a coroner's warrant, without medical evidence.
Forty-four Inquests were held, many of the verdicts being the outcome of the
intuitive wisdom of that venerable institution of our forefathers, the "crowner's quest"
court.