HH62/2/LANARK/74

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MIDDLE WARD.
The depth of colour indicates the
relative Mortality from Zymotic Diseases
in the different Parishes (Landward)
during 1891.

[Page] 74

nature, and attacks, as a rule, young men and women, this
figure represents an almost appalling amount of sickness
and loss of valuable life. Of these deaths, 19 occurred in
the First Division, 157 in the Second, and 47 in the Third
- rates respectively of 1·400, 1·781, and 1·137 per 1,000,
while the rate for the whole district was 1·559.
From other tubercular diseases the deaths numbered
163, mostly in children, from tabes mesenterica and tuber-
cular meningitis.
The total number of deaths therefore from diseases of a
tubercular nature reached a total of 386, or over 13 per
cent. of the total mortality, and equal to a rate per 1,000 of
2·698.

Cancer. - Malignant diseases caused 76 deaths, all in
persons over 40 years of age, of which 9 were registered in
the First Division, 53 in the Second, and 14 in the Third -
rates respectively of 0·663, 0·601, and 0·338. The rate for
the district as a whole is 0·531 per 1,000.

Diseases of the Nervous System caused a large number
of deaths, viz., 311, of which 127 were in children under 5
years of age. The rates per 1,000 did not vary greatly in
the different divisions - the lowest being 2·053 in the
Second, and the highest, 2·874, in the First.

From Diseases of the Circulatory System the mortality
was 195, all, with the exception of 3, being adults. The rates
per 1,000 ranged from 0·992 in the Third Division to 2·358
in the First. The rate for the Second Division was 1·384,
and for the district as a whole 1·363 per 1,000.

Diseases of the Respiratory System. - Five hundred
and sixty (560) deaths resulted from diseases affecting the
lungs and air passages (exclusive of consumption), and of
these, 235 were in children under 5 years of age, and 325 in
persons over. The respiratory death-rate for the whole
district was 3·915 per 1,000 living, which is very slightly