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The total deaths from pneumonia and other chest diseases 

 were, during these four years, 2,249 in Leeds and Sheffield, 

 and 1,237 in Huddersfield, Halifax, and Wakefield ; being 

 303 annually in favour of the latter three towns, and that 

 with the extra population beforenamed. 



Injiammations of the brain and nervous system^ as cephalitis, 

 apoplexy, paralysis, tetanus, chorea, epilepsy, insanity, deli- 

 rium tremens, and unnamed diseases of the brain, are slightly 

 more numerous in Leeds and Sheffield, being 113 for four 

 years, or 28 per year, more numerous than the same diseases 

 in Halifax, Huddersfield, and Wakefield. 



Diseases of the digestive organs^ as gastritis, enteritis 

 peritonitis, ascites, ulceration of the bowels, hernia, colic, 

 intussusception, stricture, hcematamesis, disease of the stom- 

 ach, pancreas, hepatitis, jaundice, chronic disease of the liver 

 and spleen, are as near as possible alike in both of the 

 districts compared; being for the four years 991 in Leeds 

 and Sheffield, and 980 in Halifax, Huddersfield, and Wake- 

 field. 



The number of deaths above the age of 60 years affords 

 good evidence of the relative salubrity of the districts 

 compared, and shows that more old persons die in the one 

 class of localities than in the other. The numbers, however, 

 are too small to lay much stress upon, being 1,910 for Leeds 

 and Sheffield, and 2,085 for Halifax, Huddersfield, and 

 Wakefield, (for two years,) or about 74 per annum dif- 

 ference. 



The whole result, then, is as follows : — That during the 

 years 1841, 1840, 1839, and 1838, (the years contained 

 in the Registrar-General's Statistical Accounts,) there have 

 been 5,593 more deaths in the Leeds and Sheffield districts 

 than in those of Halifax, Huddersfield, and Wakefield, or 

 1,398 deaths per year; that 2,275 of these were children 

 cut off in Leeds and Sheffield by scarlatina, small-pox. 



