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Nearly one-fourth, or 25 per cent., of the total number
of deaths arose from diseases of the Zymotic class, and
this can be readily understood, as the year under consideration
is memorable, in a sanitary point of view, for
the occurrence of Scarlatina of a malignant type over the
whole country. The large number of 50 deaths were
attributed to this disease, or two-sevenths of the total
epidemic mortality. Nearly the whole increase in the
deaths from Zymotic disease was caused by Scarlatina—50
deaths being registered in 1874 against 3 in 1873.
In the Report for 1873 for this division of the parish,
an account was given of the manner in which a careless and
uncleanly nurse communicated Small Pox to above twenty
persons, eight of whom died.
During the present year there occurred a melancholy
illustration of the manner in which the most fatal diseases
may be distributed broadcast by the ignorance and carelessness
of women following the nurse's calling. In the