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Ashburn Hall Causes. Hokitika. Christchurch. Seacliff. (Private Mental Total. Hospital). I. —General Diseases Tuberculosis— M. F. T. M. F. T. M. F. T. M. F. T. M. F. T. General 0 1 1 10 1 1 3 4 Lungs 2 0 2 1 0 1 13 4 12 10 22 Cancer 0 2 2 2 2 4 4 10 14 Toxaemia 17 8 Bacillary dysentary 0 1 1 Diabetes 112 Typhoid 0 2 2 Septicemia .. ... 1 i 2 2 2 4 Graves disease 0 1 1 Diphtheria 10 1 Congenital inanition 3 0 3 Ascariasis 0 i 1 0 1 1 II. —Diseases of the Nervous System Exhaustion .1 0 1 1 13 4 Exhaustion of mania 0 "i 1 5 4 9 Exhaustion of melancholia .. 0 1 1 0 2 2 General paralysis of the insane 1 0 1 13 2 15 Cerebral haemorrhage 022 1 0 1 9 11 20 Cerebral thrombosis 0 "2 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 13 8 21 Epilepsy Oil 13 3 16 Post encephalitic Parkinsonism 10 1 Organic brain disease 0 i 1 1 3 4 Meningitis 0 2 2 Hemiplegia 1 0 1 Huntingdon's chorea 1 0 1 III. —Diseases of the Respiratory System Pneumonia— Broncho 1 1 2 2 1 3 3 2 5 34 21 55 Hypostatic 2 2 4 4 8 12 Lobar 2 0 2 2 i" 3 6 6 12 Bronchitis 2 4 6 Pulmonary oedema 14 5 IV. —Diseases of the Circulatory System Heart disease 2 6 8 5 9 14 14 9 23 82 55 137 Arterio-sclerosis 202 3 2 5 V.—Diseases of the Digestive System Enteritis 0 1 1 22 20 42 Intestinal obstruction 0 2 2 Hepatitis 1 0 1 Gastric ulcer 1 0 1 2 0 2 Peritonitis .. 1 0 1 1 0 1 VI. —Diseases of the Urinary System 1 Uraemia 1 0 1 1 0 1 Nephritis .. .. 1 0 1 1 0 1 Cystitis 10 1 VII. —Old Age Senile decay 4 6 10 23 35 58 24 32 56 0 1 1 69 105 174 VIII. —External Causes Head injury , . 0 1 1 Suicide 0 2 2 0 1 1 2 3 5 Asphyxia 1 0 1 IX. —Died whilst on probation 0 3 3 1 1 2 11 11 22 Totals 14 19 33 35 60 95 52 55 107 0 1 1 327 320 647