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In the annexed Mortality Table for the four quarters of
the year, I have classified the deaths in the parish according
to age ; so that 337, or rather more than one-fifth, died under
1 year, and 237, or rather more than one-seventh, died at 1
and under 5.
Zymotic and other Diseases.
Zymotic disease destroyed 316 persons,—56 in the first
quarter of the year, 89 in the second, 79 in the third, and
92 in the fourth. The principal causes of death were as
follows:—Small-pox 4 (showing a decrease on the previous
year of 6), measles 35, scarlet fever rose from 28 to 52,
diphtheria 17, quinsy 1, croup 15, sore throat 1, whoopingcough
40, typhus fever rose from 19 to 30, erysipelas 12,
metria 4, pyaemia 19, dysentery 4, diarrhoea 58, cholera declined
from 15 to 4, remittent fever 1, rheumatism 4, syphilis
9, and thrush 6. Tabes and scrofula proved fatal to 29
persons, consumption to 228, lung disease declined from 328
to 282, hydrocephalus, convulsions, and teething destroyed
95. There were 44 deaths from accidents or negligence; 8
of infants from murder. There were also 5 deaths from
suicide, and 15 of infants from causes not specified or illdefined.
Sickness.
The Table of Sickness (Table II.) refers only to those
cases of existing diseases which have been recorded by the
parochial surgeons in the Out-Wards and at the several
Institutions from which I either receive returns or make
them myself. The returns of sickness from the In-Wards
have been made so generally during the past year that I am
unable to tabulate them. I can, however, give the totals as
they appeared in the monthly Reports. But it is very difficult
to arrive at perfect accuracy in making these returns,