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Annual Report of tha Medtcal Ofleer of I/tallh—1876—7.
From disease* of tho brain and nervous system, hare been registered 199 death*, two
than in 1875—6. Of thia class convulsions proved the moot fatal; the deatha numbered
of which 68 were under one year of age, and 95 under five years of age.
Bronchitis in the class of lung diseases, has caused the largest mortality of any single
•sse, namely, 181 deaths. Consumption formerly used to stand at the head of the
lh list.
Deaths from diseases of the heart hare doubled in number. More attention is now
1 to the diagnoses of those diseases, which may account somewhat for the large increase
istered.
Owing to premature birth, debility and atrophy, 65 infants died. Thirty-two perished
n violence and privation. Of these, nine were accidentally suffocated in bed, their ages
ged from eleven days to twenty-five years. The last had lain upon his face whilst
nk. Two persona, a male and female, aged respectively 23 and 62 years, hung them■c*.
Three died from taking phosphorus and cyanide of potassium. From the first,
• females oged 45 and 69 years; from tho latter a male aged 39 years. Three females
i from haemorrhage, aged 36, 38, and 55 years; one from ruptured vnriooso veins, and
other two, tho result of internal injuries. To burns and scalds three deaths worn
ibuted. Two children aged one year each, by upsetting hot fluid over themselves; and
clothes of a man aged 82 caught firo. Five died fiom concussion of the brain produced
•arious ways, aged respectively 1, 10. 49, 57 and 67 years. Two deaths followed frac-
• of the skull to two males, aged 4 months and 43 years. A boy aged 11 years, died from
animation of tho bowels, brought on by drawing a truck ; a male aged 34 years, from
tured bladder, tho consequenco of jumping over a wall; another male, aged 4 years,
n ruptured abdomen, having been run over.
Of those who died 649 were under five years of age, 333 wero from 40 to 80 year* and
cards, of which a male had reached 90, two females 92 years, a Waterloo veteran 95,
female 98, and another 101 years.
Tho mortality shown by Peabody's Buildings, Blarkfriars Road, gives evidence of tl.e
1th enjoyed by thoso who dwell thero. Whilst 21} died in 1000 living in the district,
12) died to the same proportion of persons in tho buildings. Had tho mortality been
same outside tho walls ns within, 505 lives would have been saved. This fact should
e on tho carrying out tho Art jeans' and Labourers' Dwellings Act, as no doubt can la
'rtainod but that tho buildings of the Metropolitan Local Government Bosrd, will prove
(Hcient for the maintenance of heslth and lifo, as those which have been raised by the
cutor* of I*eabody'* gift. Out of a population consisting of 1438 persons, 18 deaths
s occurred ; two from scarlet fever, one from diphtheria, one from diarrhoea, four from
nohitis, three from inflammation of tho lungs, one from croup, one from cancer, one
a tabes, one from convulsion*, one from disease of heart, one from premature birth,
ono frcm old ago.
Thero havo been hold in the District daring the year, 97 inquests.