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Infectious and other Diseases.
Causes of Death.
The causes of death are tabulated in Table XXX. (Table
IV. of the Local Government Board Series), and are set out in
greater detail in Table XXXI.
Zymotic Mortality.
Table X. shows the deaths from the chief zymotic
diseases for the ten years 1893-1902, and the year 1903
respectively. The figures for the latter year compare
favourably, on the whole, with those in the preceding years,
and in every disease the number of deaths was well below
the decennial average. There were no deaths from small-pox,
and the scarlet fever mortality was exceptionally low. The
greater number of deaths from diphtheria, as compared with
the two preceding years, indicates the increased prevalence
of the disease in 1903. The number of deaths due to diarrhoea
is, comparatively speaking very low, but it is high enough to
indicate that much yet remains to be done to attack this
eminently preventible disease.