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Class I.
SPECIFIC FEBRILE OR ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The total number of deaths referred to this group of diseases was
576; of which 460 were cases of young children under five years
of age; of whom 133 did not complete the first year of life; 167
of the deaths were from Whooping Cough; 124 from Measles; 120
from Scarlet Fever; 66 from Diarrhœa; and 52 from Diphtheria,
THE SEVEN PRINCIPAL ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The deaths from the diseases grouped under the orders Miasmatic
and Diarrhœal were 552 against 416 last year ; an increase of 136.
The decennial average of Zymotic deaths for the ten years, 1878
to 1887, was 522 (see Table V).

Of the total deaths from all causes, 18½ per cent, were referred
to the diseases included in the above-mentioned table, against 14½
per cent, in 1887.
The death rate from Zymotic diseases was 4.22 against 3.20 last
year; the corresponding rates for London were 3,02 in 1887 and
2.53 in 1888.