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The next table (the mortality table) will afford all
the necessary information as to the number of deaths that
were registered as due to both the zymotic and non-zymotic
forms of disease, giving the sex, age, and social positions
of the diseased persons, and distinguishing those who died
between birth and ten years of age. It is not a little
gratifying to be able to record the same absence of all
mention of fatal small-pox within the Sub-district,
as has been done in several consecutive reports. It
is equally satisfactory to speak of a very small mortality
indeed due to the other epidemic maladies included in the
table.
Under the headings of Scarlatina, Quinsy, Croup,
Whooping Cough, Fevers, Erysipelas, Metria or Childbirth,
Carbuncle and Influenza, no deaths whatever are
recorded. Of all the diseases, therefore, classed under the
heading Zymotic, there were only 3 deaths from Measles,
2 from actual epidemic Diarrhoea, and 1 from Diphtheria,
Nothing, it is submitted, can more clearly show than the
above statistics, the good effects of the sanitary measures