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obtained from the Small Pox Hospitals. Suffice it to
say at present, that the early removal and isolation of
cases, with thorough disinfection of rooms and articles
of bedding, have been most satisfactory in preventing
(except in a very few instances) the contagion from
attacking second or third persons in the same house.
Fever cases are very rare in the parish: out of the
36 cases of recorded deaths by fever, typhus is
unknown; typhoid, relapsing and infantile fever are
not common; the fever cases indeed were generally
registered as complicated with some local disease.
The Zymotic diseases vary but little in the average
number of annual deaths. The following are the figures
for the last five years:—
1866-7.
1867-8.
1868-9.
1869-70.
1870-1.
342
374
325
364
386