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TABLE No. 13.

Deaths in 1890, Aged One Hundred Years, or more.

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Table 13 presents a list of the centenarians who died during the year 1890, all females. In 1889 there were three, one male and two females, who had reached the age of 100 years or over.

CAUSES OF DEATH.

There were returned for the year 1890, 7,368 deaths - 3,692 males, 3,624 females, and 52 with sex not stated. In 337 cases the cause of death was unclassified or not stated: this was due in many cases either to the neglect of the physician to return the cause in his certificate of death, failure of the local registrar to comprehend or decipher the term given in the physician's certificate, or the use of some meaningless term, such as "hemorrhage" or "inflammation," which it was impossible to classify without knowing the organ or organs affected. The term "heart failure" is used by some in such an indiscriminate manner as to give no information whatever, except the bare fact of death.

TABLE No. 14.

Causes of Death, by Classes, 1884 to 1890, inclusive.

1.- Zymotic diseases..

1884. 1885. 1886. 1887. 1888. 1889. 1890.

907 890 1,095 1,073 1,097 1,172 1,155

II. Constitutional diseases. 1,276 1,271 1,284 1,222 1,200 1,114 1,309

III. Local diseases

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2,594 2,637 2,610 2,731 2,994 2,852 3,146

IV. - Developmental diseases 857 848 948 952 1,016 1,041 1,150

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V. Violent deaths

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201 225 206 218 234 233 271

This table gives the causes of death by classes for the years 1884 to 1890, inclusive. It will be noticed that in 1890. there was quite a marked increase in the number of deaths from constitutional, local, and developmental diseases. Comparing the record of 1890 with that of the preceding year it will be seen that there was a slight falling off in the zymotic

diseases, a class generally believed to be more readily avoided or prevented than any other. The increased mortality from diseases of the second, third, and fourth classes is doubtless due largely if not entirely to the prevalence of epidemic influenza. In class five, violent deaths, there is a remarkable uniformity from year to year.

TABLE No. 15.

Percentage of Causes of Death, by Classes, 1884 to 1890, inclusive.*

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* Excluding deaths from unspecified causes, premature and still births.

Table 15 gives the percentages of causes of death, by classes, excluding deaths from unspecified causes, premature and still births from the year 1884 to 1890, inclusive. This table presents substantially the same information as table 14, but in the form of percentages. The relative fatality of each class of diseases is vividly shown. The falling off in the zymotic diseases in 1890, reduced the percentage from 19.1 to 17.0 in 1890, while the other classes show a greater or less increase.

Violent deaths.

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TABLE No. 16.

Causes of Death, by Classes and Counties, 1890.

Constitutional.

Local.

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Number.

Percentage.

Number.

Percentage

Number.

Percentage.

Total.

This table gives the causes of death, by classes and counties, for 1890, with the percentages of each to the total number of deaths, and including deaths from unspecified causes, premature and still births, which accounts for the differences in the percentages in tables 15 and 16; the former gives the percentage of each class to the total number of specified causes, excluding premature and still births, while the latter gives the percentage of each class to the total number of all classes. The highest percentage in the zymotic class is in Hillsborough county, 22.05; Strafford, 18.60; Cheshire, 17.59; Belknap, 17.11; Coös, 13.98; Rockingham, 11.92; Grafton, 11.06; Merrimack, 10.88; Sullivan, 10.84; and the lowest in Carroll county, 6.93. The percentage of deaths in this class for the entire State was 15.67 to the total mortality, as against 17.50 for 1889.

The percentages in the class of constitutional diseases do not vary so much in the different counties, the highest rate being 20.48 in Sullivan county, followed by 19.90 in Rockingham, 19.53 in Merrimack, 19.47 in Strafford, 19.14 in Coös, 17.37 in Belknap, 17.36 in Grafton, 16.50 in Carroll, 15.82 in Hillsborough, and the lowest, 14.00 in Cheshire. The percentage of this class for the whole State was 17.76 in 1890, and 16.63 the previous year.

In the class of local diseases the highest rate was in Carroll county, 54.78; Merrimack, 49.95; Grafton, 46.23; Sullivan, 46.08; Rockingham, 43.85; Cheshire, 42.36; Belknap, 40.10; Hillsborough, 38.87; and Strafford, 38.33. Rate for the State, 42.70 in 1890 and 42.59 the preceding year.

In developmental diseases the rate is very uniform throughout the State. Grafton county has the highest rate of the year, 18.22, then follow Hillsborough county with a rate of 17.13; Belknap, 16.84; Strafford, 16.23; Sullivan, 15.96; Cheshire, 15.62; Coös, 15.19; Rockingham, 13.52; Merrimack, 13.22; and Carroll, 11.88. Rate for the State, 15.61. In 1889 the rate was 15.54.

There were 271 violent deaths, being 3.68 per cent of the total mortality of the State. Of these 217 were reported

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