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proved sanitary arrangements, such as pure air and
sunlight, efficient drainage and a dry subsoil, good
food, warm clothing, and temperance, are powerful
antidotes to the bane of tubercle, which is induced
by squalor and dirt, by exposure to cold, by intemperance,
by the want of the proper necessaries of life,
by overcrowding in ill constructed, unventilated
houses. The diseases classified as tubercular include
tabes mesenterica, tubercular meningitis, and other
forms of tuberculosis, such as scrofula, &c. It is
probable that the deaths ascribed to tubercular
diseases do not comprise all the deaths originating
in the tubercular diathesis, and in fact many
deaths of children classified as atrophy, premature
birth, debility and convulsions were really due
primarily to the scrofulous taint.
There were 19 sudden deaths necessitating
Coroner's Inquests, of which seven were due to
syncope and heart disease, six to accidental suffocation,
one to convulsions, one to an accidental kick,
one to a fall, one run over by a passing train,
and two were suicidal.

Seven of the deaths occurred between the ages of
80 and 90.