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The statistical facts referred to in this Report being
fully set forth in the table which follows, it will be alone
necessary to briefly allude to a few of the more important
points of such table, viz.:
1. That the deaths from the epidemic class of diseases
numbered two less than in 1873.
2. That the mortality due to the non-Zymotic forms
of disease increased in some (viz,, Diseases of Brain and
Nerves and Digestive Organs), and decreased in others
(Premature Birth, Low Vitality, Whooping-cough, Fever,
Diarrhoea, and Diseases of Uncertain Seat).
3. That infants and children between birth and ten
years of age succumbed iu fewer numbers in the past than
in the preceding year, the difference being 23 in favour of
the past year.
4. That the columns relating to "Social Position"
have been augmented in some, and diminished in others,
but that the deaths amongst the industrial and poorer
classes were fewer by 37 than in the previous year, and,
relatively to the other three classes above them, presented
a much less difference than usual—indeed, collectively, the
three higher classes died in greater numbers than did the
industrial class by as many as 59. In the previous year
there were 122 deaths amongst the latter class to 118
amongst the former, but in the past year the difference was
85 to 145.
I must now refer to the mortality table itself, and
make a few comments on its several points of interest.