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The above Table discloses the usual facts, upon which
it will be necessary to briefly comment.
Zymotic Diseases.—The deaths from this class of
diseases will be seen to have been less than in the preceding
year, Small Pox having no entry in the Table, though
in the previous year they amounted to 2. The mortality
from Measles was 7 less than in the preceding year,
while, from Scarlatina and Diphtheria it was respectively
one and two more than in that year.
Whooping Cough proved fatal in two more instances
than was recorded in the former Table, while of Diarrhoea
and Choleraic disease there were 9 deaths in the past year
against 6 as the registered number in 1874. Almost all the
deaths from Zymotic disease proved fatal to children and
young persons, 3 only occurring to persons of advanced life,
viz., between 40 and 80 years of age. The proportion of
the mortality of the seven principal epidemics to deaths from
all causes was during the year 10·4 per cent. The following
Table may be referred to as giving the relative increase or
decrease, as the case may be, of the seven principal Zymotic
diseases in the two past years.
DISEASES.
1874
1875
Seven
principal
Epidemics.
Small Pox 2 ...
Measles 9 2
Scarlatina 3 4
Diphtheria 1 3
Whooping Cough 3 5
Typhus, &c 2 2
Diarrhoea and Choleraic Disease 6 9
Totals:·31 25