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of deaths for the district those that have occurred
in the Union Workhouse, the County Lunatic
Asylum at Brookwood, and in any other Public
Institution in London or elsewhere, of residents
removed there for treatment, together with those in
the Cottage Hospital and the Isolation Hospitals
at Tolworth and Cuddington. This naturally
increases the number registered as occurring in
the district proper considerably, but nevertheless
the total is only 10 above the average for the last
seven years though the population has increased
during that time by over 2000.
The nett deaths at all ages belonging to the
district are 163 as compared with 169 the previous
year and are of 86 males and 77 females. There
died of phthisis, 5; of bronchitis, 10+; of
pneumonia, 11; of heart disease, 24; of cancer,
17 ; premature births, 10 ; and of violence, 7.
The deaths from cancer, i.e., malignant
disease in all its forms, were 17 as against 12 the
year before and is in keeping with the RegistrarGeneral's
notes that this disease is increasing.
This increase, which in the seven years 1891—97
was in males 136 per cent and in females 70 per
cent over the averages of the 10 years 1861—70,
has attracted considerable attention, and investigation
and research is being actively prosecuted in
all civilised countries with every room to hope
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