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From an examination of the foregoing Table it will be
seen with satisfaction that the amount of mortality resulting
from these diseases, and the relation which it bore to the
total mortality, was about one third less than the average of
the past ten years. The most fatal of these diseases was
Diarrhœa, which, as usual, was prevalent during the whole
year. Hooping-cough was the next most fatal, and somewhat
exceeded the decennial average; with this exception
all the other diseases of this class were below the average,
some very considerably so, and can scarcely be said to have
prevailed epidemically. By far the larger proportion of
fatality from these diseases occurred in the winter quarter, as
seen in the following Table which shews the months in which
the deaths from the seven principal Epidemic diseases took
place.
DISEASE.
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Small Pox ... ... ... 1 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
Measles 1 ... ... ... ... ... 1 ... ... ...
Scarlatina ... ... ... 1 ... ... ... ... 1 2 ... 1
Diphtheria ... ... ... ... 1 ... ... ... ... 1 ...
Hooping Cough 2 ... ... 3 1 1 1 3 1 2
Diarrhœa ... ... ... 2 ... 1 3 1 3 4 2 1
Fever 1 2 1 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
Sickness and Mortality among the parochial poor.—
The amount of disease, with its nature and attendant fatality,
which came under treatment amongst the parochial poor, is
exhibited in Table 5, Appendix, from which it is seen that
the mortality is found to have been nearly one third less
than the average of the past ten years, and thus fully confirms
the lowness of the mortality indicated by the returns
of the Registrar-General. It is valuable also as furnishing
the only available means of estimating the total amount of