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Zymotic Diseases, and their fatality.—Preferring the
tabular form of conveying the necessary information
respecting the mortality from the principal Zymotic
maladies to any mere description of their fatality during
the past, as compared with that of previous years, I
employ the following arrangement to show how extremely
varied has been the mortality from these maladies since
1860, and down to the present period. It is gratifying
however to find that, with the large addition which must
have been made to the population since my last Report
was furnished, that two more deaths only than appeared
in the Table of 1869, should have been registered in the
past year as due to the seven principal Zymotic diseases.
It will be observed that the fatal cases of Measles, which
in the three previous years had been respectively 3, 9, and
'2, increased in the past year to 14; and that Scarlatina,
which had in the same three years been 5, 14, and 29
respectively, increased to 45; thus constituting the past
year quite an exceptional one in respect to the mortality
from these two maladies. The deaths from Whooping
Cough and Fever, I am pleased to find, show a considerable
decrease in the past year compared with 1869.
Years. 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1S68 1869 1870
Small-pox. 6 6 1 11 3 7 10 7 0 10 6
Measles 20 0 6 24 12 7 18 3 9 2 14
Scarlatina. 24 22 13 28 11 11 6 5 14 29 45
Diphtheria 9 13 3 1 2 4 5 3 7 0 2
Whooping-
cough 21 14 14 9 10 15 14 7 25 29 9
Typhus ... 6 5 8 6 14 11 16 10 26 17 12
Diarrhœa
& Cholera 5 16 7 16 11 20 17 21 28 30 31
Totals 91 76 52 95 63 75 86 56 109 117 119