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Fever of one-half of their respective averages. There
were three deaths only registered from Small Pox, but
three more occurred in hospital, the average being exceeded
by two. In the calculation of the foregoing
averages the deaths in hospitals have been included.
The propagation of infective diseases by the return to
school of children during convalescence from these
diseases, with the remedies suggested for its prevention,
has been so recently explained as to require no further
comment here, than that the evil is one of great extent
and importance, and therefore deserving serious attention.
(See Report 1884, page 92.)
The months in which the deaths from Epidemic
Diseases occurred, with the mean temperature of each
quarter of the year, are shewn in the subjoined table.
The bulk of these deaths will be seen to have occurred
in the Spring and Autumn quarters, the amount in each
of which was more than twice as great as in the Summer
quarter, and more than five times as great as in the
Winter quarter. The cause of such difference is not
apparent by a consideration of the climatic conditions of
the year.