Thought you all may be interested in reply I have received :_
Taken from the Registrar General's Report for 1924 there were 836 deaths in
the Island and the main causes of death were as follows:

Influenza 34
TB 91
Cancer 82
Cerebral Haemorrhage/Apoplexy 81
Heart disease 112
Bronchitis 46
Pneumonia 42
Old Age 78

Tuberculosis accounted for 10.9% of all deaths and was before the discovery
of modern treatments in the mid twentieth century an incurable disease.