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such deaths would add 1.1 per 1,000 to the death rate,
supposing the whole to be proportionately distributed.
CAUSES OF DEATH.
ZYMOTIC DISEASES:_ In this large and important
division 465 deaths, or one fourth (25.9 per cent) of
the total, were registered ; of these, 411 belonged to the
principal diseases of the Miasmatic order, being 67
above the number in the previous year (344), and 32
above the average of the previous five years (379).
They amounted to 22.6 per cent of the deaths from all
causes, and to a rate of 4.7 per 1,000 living. In 1879
this rate was 3.5, and in 1878, 5.4. The number of
deaths from smallpox was 3, of which 2 occurred in the
second and 1in the fourth quarter. The other deaths
in this class were measles 46; Scarlet fever 102;
diphtheria 13; whooping cough 94; fever in various
forms 21 ; diarrhœa 125 and simple cholera 1. Measles
was most fatal during the last quarter of the year, there
being only two deaths registered from this cause during
the first six months. Scarlet fever prevailed generally
throughout the year. The severe epidemic of whooping
cough, which had continued for two and a half years,
terminated in the third quarter, when the number of
deaths fell to three. The deaths from diarrhœa
exceeded the number of deaths from the same cause in
the previous year by 80.