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amounted to 81 only. This is a great reduction, and when
we take into consideration that but two deaths occurred from
Small-pox during the past year, and none whatever during
the two preceding ones, we must consider it as most satisfactory.
Scarlatina and Diarrhoea were also less fatal, and the
deaths from both Fever and Measles were considerably less,
having fallen in number from 33 to 22, as to the first
named of these diseases, and as to the last from 6 to 3.
The deaths from Whooping Cough and Diphtheria were
slightly in excess of those recorded in 1875. The following
Table gives the comparative number of deaths from the
seven principal diseases of the Epidemic class in the
several years from 1364 to 1875, affording at one view
the means of judging of the advance of scientific sanitation
as affecting the reduction in the number of these maladies.
Years. 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875
Small-pox 7 10 7 0 10 6 94 14 0 0 2
Measles 7 18 3 9 2 14 2 30 11 20 3
Scarlatina 11 6 5 14 29 45 20 6 2 33 22
Diphtheria 4 5 3 7 0 2 3 3 3 4 6
Whooping-
cough 15 14 7 25 29 9 18 25 14 15 17
Typhus 11 16 10 26 17 12 10 11 10 6 2
Diarrhoea
& Cholera
20 17 21 28 30 31 31 39 25 27 22
Totals 75 86 | 56 109 117 119 178 128 65 105 74
The following detailed Table, the one employed for
many years by the entire medical staff, gives the number
of deaths, together with all the necessary particulars as to
sex, age, and social position, of the deceased persons, and
forms, as I have frequently remarked in previous reports,
almost a clear and concise report in itself; at all events
requiring but very few comments to be made upon it, and
those only in reference to one or two points of comparison
with the statistics of former reports.
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