Brain disease, Apoplexy, Paralysis, &c. 26 Lung diseases 37 Heart disease 7 Scrofulous or Tuberculous diseases, Phthisis, &c. 41 Wasting diseases, Debility, &c., of Children 21 Atelectasis (Imperfect expansion of lungs at birth) 5 Cancer 8 Enteric fever 2 Measles 4 Diarrhœa 3 Intestinal diseases, &c. 13 Kidney disease 4 Uterine diseases 2 Ulcer 3 Childbirth, &c. 3 Violent 2. Privation 1. 3 Old Age 23 Various 16 Total 221 INQUESTS. A large proportion of deaths form the subject of enquiry in the Coroner’s Court. Last year the number was 172, viz., 152 in the Town sub-district and 20 in Brompton, equal to 6.4 per cent. of the total deaths. One hundred of the subjects of enquiry were below the age of five years, 80 being less than a year old, mostly in fact infants of a few hours, days, or weeks. Forty-eight inquests were held on persons between the ages of 5 and 60, and 24 on persons above the age of 60. The great majority of the deaths were due to disease. Thus of the 99 sudden deaths the causes of death as found by _post mortem_ examination (and _post mortem_ examinations were made in 154 out of the total of 172 cases) were as follows:— Brain, Diseases of the 13 Apoplexy 11 Lungs, Diseases of the 24 Heart „ „ 20 Scrofula 4 Convulsions 4 Spasm of the Glottis 7 Diarrhœa 3 Diphtheria 2 Syphilis 2 Premature birth and infantile debility 3 Visceral diseases (of Liver, Kidneys, &c.) 3 “Fever” 1; Thrush 1; “Sudden” 1 3 Total 99 Various diseases were specified in other six cases in which the deaths were not returned as “sudden.” Death was found to be caused by disease in many of the cases in which the deceased were “found dead,” either in bed or otherwise, viz., from