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force of epidemic influences, but how exceedingly wide
has been the range of numbers in respect to deaths from
this particular class of maladies in the 10 years preceding
the one under review.
YEARS.
Number of Deaths
from all Causes.
No. of Deaths from
Seven of the principal
Epidemic
Diseases.
Percentage of Deaths
from seven principal
Epidemics
to Deaths from
all causes.
1859 119 26 21.8
1860 86 3 3.4
1861 124 21 16.9
1862 107 13 12.1
1863 129 29 22.4
1864 121 11 9.0
1865 115 11 9.5
1866 121 16 13.2
1867 128 20 15.6
1868 118 14 11.8
1869 133 31 23.3
In the past year there were, it will be seen, 31 deaths
registered as due to the seven principal Zymotic diseases,
against only 14 recorded in the previous year, and instead
of yielding a relative per centage to deaths from all causes
of 11.8, as was the case in that year, now gives the much
higher one of 23 3. In this respect the figures approach
very closely those of 1859 and 1863, when the per centages
were respectively 21.8 and 22.4, both these years being,
like the past one, marked by the excessive fatality attending
prevailing epidemics.
The following table (the usual one employed in the
several local summaries) gives more in detail the desired
statistical information touching the mortality of the past
year, and also particularises the several maladies of the
Zymotic class which resulted in death.