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Influenza.
It may be noticed that during the year 14 deaths were
registered as having been caused by Influenza, compared with
only four in 1907. No particular cause can be assigned for this
increase, but some explanation for the mortality can be found in
the fact that the great majority of the deaths (over 78 per cent.)
were people aged over 65, and that in most of these cases the
actual cause of death was some complication such as pneumonia
or other acute respiratory condition following the primary cause,
influenza.
Deaths of Residents registered outside the District.
It has already been explained that the 30 deaths of residents
that occurred outside the district are not included in the total of
528 dealt with in Tables IV. and V., though they are included in
the last two columns of Table I.
The conditions causing these deaths may be briefly noted, but
in general they have little bearing on the health of the district.
Of the eight persons who died in lunatic asylums in other
districts, but who actually belonged to this, six were males and
two females. All were over middle age, and the cause of death
in every case was such as is common in asylums.
Pour of the 30 died of consumption, three of the deaths
occurring in institutions. All were persons aged over 40, two being
males and two females.
Two females and one male died of cancer, all of them being
in general hospitals.
Three children under the age of 12 died from tuberculous
peritonitis or meningitis in general hospitals outside the district.
In these cases it may be assumed that the disease causing death
was contracted in the district, and therefore these three deaths
are of importance.
The deaths of two infants, the children of residents, were
registered outside the district. One was aged two days and the
other two months. Both were males, and the cause of death was
congenital malformation in the one and pneumonia in the other.