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1902] 40
DEATHS FROM THE PRINCIPAL ZYMOTICS.
There were 608 deaths ascribed to the principal zymotic diseases as compared
with an annual average, corrected for increase of population, during the
preceding seventeen years of 880. In no previous year since 1885 has the
return been so low, if the year 1889, when 604 deaths occurred, be excepted.
Even that return on the basis of the present population would have been 664.
These 608 deaths represent a death-rate of 177 per 1,000, as against a
mean death since 1885 of 2.60. Even the return for 1889 did not present
so low a death-rate, for it was equal to 2.01 per 1,000 of the population.
The decrease in the return was common to each disease, except Smallpox.
Thus Measles was under the corrected average for seventeen years
by 96 deaths, Scarlet Fever by 16, Diphtheria by 36, Whooping Cough by 43,
Typhus by 1, Enteric Fever by 7, and Diarrhoea by 122. A state of health such
as is exhibited by these figures is very satisfactory.
As it is well to compare the present with past returns of the borough, the
deaths and death-rates for the last eighteen years are given.