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By comparing the figures of the past year with those of
the preceding one, it will he seen that the deaths due to the
7 principal Epidemics were in the proportion of 19 in 1870
to 31 in the previous year. It is submitted that a decrease
of 22 deaths in the two years can be viewed in no other
light than as an indication of the operation within the Subdistrict
of some very beneficial sanitary influences.
In the number of deaths under every disease of the
Zymotic class (Diarrhœa excepted) it has been found that
there is a greater or less diminution in the two years
that have been compared in favour of 1870 ; thus, there
were registered in the past year, from Measles 4 deaths
against 5 in 1869, from Scarlatina 3 against 6, from Diphtheria
1 against 2, from Croup none against 1, from
Whooping Cough 3 against 6, from Fever none against 5,
and from Metria or Puerperal Fever 1 against 2. Under
Diarrhoea alone does there appear any increase (8 against 6),
whilst to Small Pox, and all the other Zymotic diseases
mentioned in the Table, there were no deaths whatever
attributed in 1870.
The following is the usual detailed Table setting forth
the causes of death, as well as the sex, age, and social
positions of every person whose death was registered in the
past year, and distinguishing the deaths from Zymotic
diseases from those due to all other causes.