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Comparing 1896 with 1895, and using for this
purpose the rates for "persons" in the whole Parish,
it will be found that, with the exception of those from
the "miasmatic" (2.24) and "ill.defined" (0.52), the
rates for 1896 were lower than the corresponding rates
for 1895. The rates just mentioned were not, however,
so high in 1896 as in 1893
In Table 22 the quarterly statistics for certain
diseases are given, most of the diseases selected being
those over which sanitary work is deemed to have more
immediate control. In this Table the two sub-divisions
of the Parish are considered separately.
PRINCIPAL ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
During the 53 weeks, 281 deaths in St. Mary were
attributed to the "Principal Zymotic Diseases," as compared
with 41 in St. John. These totals are equivalent
to rates of 3.03 and 1.20 per 1,000 respectively. In
1895 the rates for the districts were 1.90 and 0.87 per
1,000. The Zymotic Death-Rate for the whole Parish
in 1896 was 2.54 per 1,000, as against rates of 1.68 and
2.25 in 1895 and 1894 respectively. Table V. in the
Appendix (page 130) gives the corrected averages from
each disease for the whole Parish and the death-rates for
1896, and in Table 23 will be found a comparative statement
of the death-rates from each disease in 1896 in
comparison with the mean rates for the decennium
1886-95. In Paddington the mortalities from measles,