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Causes of Death.
The causes of death and the various ages at which they occurred are
given in detail in Table IV., which includes deaths at all ages, and in
Table V. dealing only with deaths of infants under 12 months of age.
The diseases mentioned in Table IV. are selected by the central authority,
and the same Table is given in all annual reports of Medical Officers of
Health, but two additional causes of death have been added for this district,
as was done last year, namely Broncho-pneumonia and "Senectus." Deaths
from the first of these would in other places be included under the heading
of diseases of the respiratory organs, and those due to the second under the
heading of all other causes.
The deaths from infectious and zymotic diseases are referred to elsewhere
in this Report. Of the other causes of death detailed in Table IV., the
following are perhaps of special interest.
Tuberculous Disease. 39 deaths during the year were caused by
tuberculosis in some form, compared to 62 in 1904. Of these 39 deaths, 30
were due to Pulmonary Phthisis or Consumption, and of the persons dying
from this disease, 70 per cent, were over 25 years of age. All the other 9
deaths from tubercle were in persons under 25 years of age; two-thirds of
them were children under 5, and nearly half infants under 12 months.