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1917] 10
SEPTIC DISEASES.
Of these diseases Erysipelas and Puerpera' Septicemia are the chief.
Erysipelas.—Eight deaths occurred from it, which is 2 above the number
of 1916, and 3 less than the average of the ten years 1907-16.
Puerperal Diseases.—These were Puerperal Pyaemia, Septicæmia,
Septic Intoxication and Puerperal Fever, and they caused 6 deaths, which is
3 below the return of 1916, and 1 less than the average of the preceding
ten years.
CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.
The chief of these diseases are Cancer, Tuberculosis, Rheumatism,
Diabetes, Gout, Gangrene and Purpura. They were collectively responsible
for 1,114 deaths, as contrasted with an average of 1,040 in the preceding ten
years. The death rate represented 375 per 1,000, as contrasted with a
decennial average of 3.18.