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Other Diseases of the Zymotic Class. — Thus
far I have dealt with the " seven principal diseases of the
zymotic class," comprising, with Cholera and Influenza,
all of those Maladies which in Table III. (Appendix), go to
make up Orders 1 and 2 (Miasmatic and Diarrhoeal Diseases),
of class 1 in the Registrar-General's classification, viz.,
" Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases."
Still dealing with this important Class, it appears that no
deaths were registered from Malarial Diseases, comprised in
Order 3, viz., Remittent Fever and Ague ; nor from Zoogenous
Diseases, in Order 4, viz., Cow-pox and Effects of Vaccination,
and " Other Diseases," viz., Hydrophobia, Glanders, Splenic
Fever.
Order 5, Venereal Diseases, includes Syphilis, Gonorrhoea,
and Stricture of the Urethra. Syphilis was the registered
cause of 28 deaths, against 14, 13, and 10, in the preceding
three years respectively. Twenty-five of these deaths
occurred in the Town sub-district: 20 of them were of
children under one year of age. If the truth were known,
it would probably appear that this Protean malady was accountable,
directly or indirectly, for a number of deaths
considerably in excess of the record. There was one death
from stricture of the urethra.
Order 6, Septic Diseases. This order comprises Erysipelas,
Pyoemia, Septicœmia and Puerperal Fever: the total deaths
registered were 32, against 24,18, and 23, in the preceding three
years respectively. Erysipelas was the cause of 17 deaths,*
against 8 and 11 in the preceding three years respectively;
eleven of them in the Town sub-district. Two of the deaths
were of children under one year of age. Pyœmia and Septicaemia
were the causes of 5 deaths, all of them in the Town sub-district.
There had been 6, 5, and 4 deaths from these causes in the
preceding three years respectively.
* The notified cases were 273, many of them being of traumatic origin, unimportant
in character, and such as the framers of the Act could scarcely have
intended to be notified,