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Classification of Deaths according to Zymotic Causes
during the last Sixteen Years.
Years.
Alvine
Disorders.
Continued
Fevers.
Scarlet
Fever.
Small-pox.
Measles.
Whooping
Cough.
Croup and
Diphtheria.
Erysipelas.
Total.
1855
181
129
196
58
46
106
52
31
699
1856
100
159
130
33
76
61
39
20
618
1857
133
109
65
14
48
114
50
20
553
1858
92
88
50
6
102
131
44
19
532
1859
113
107
127
47
88
121
52
10
665
1860
64
74
85
60
75
74
37
5
474
1861
97
70
66
4
119
125
77
19
577
1862
63
174
95
4
92
127
71
14
640
1863
79
113
204
44
70
80
63
20
673
1864
105
105
122
22
130
69
54
17
624
1865
86
106
69
8
24
114
63
18
488
1866
177
124
65
29
82
83
35
17
612
1867
103
70
30
31
13
39
31
12
329
1868
106
80
40
18
58
49
35
9
395
1869
59
85
123
2
46
82
33
5
435
1870
58
54
127
3
48
44
30
11
395
Average
101
103
100
24
70
88
48
15
549
So that the utmost range in the annual proportion
of zymotic deaths to the total deaths is from 185
per 1,000, in the year which has just expired, to 240
per 1,000 in the cholera year of 1866—the average
for the whole period being 202 per 1,000. The same
fact is observable in all the large towns of England;
and it shows that although there may be many notable
fluctuations, year by year, in the intensity of
certain specific diseases, yet the aggregate mortality
from all causes remains at nearly the same point. In