┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬──────────────┐ │ Cause of Death. │No. of Deaths.│ ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────┤ │Disease of Respiratory Organs:— │ │ │ Consumption │ 52│ │ Other Diseases │ 17│ │Epidemic and Contagious Disease │ 20│ │Accidents:— │ │ │ In Mine │ 37│ │ Not stated to be in Mine│ 21│ │Diseases of the Brain and Nerves │ 12│ │Diseases of the Digestive Organs │ 10│ │Disease of the Heart │ 2│ │Other Causes of Disease │ 22│ │Natural Decay and Old Age │ 19│ ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────┤ │ Total Deaths │ 212│ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────┘ In a subsequent portion of this report I shall advert to the state of the health of the miners in Cornwall, as compared by Dr. Barham with the state of the agricultural labourers in the immediate vicinity of the mines. I would here request attention to a suggestion which appears to me to arise from a consideration of the evils above displayed, (and that will receive further corroboration in the course of this report,) that if there were a regular system of periodical inspection of the places of work or places of large assemblage, it would be attended with great advantage to the lower orders of the community, in which the other classes could not fail to participate.