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twelve months having risen, from 64 in the previous year, to 331, the
fatality during the months named having reached 286.
The deaths from this disease during the eight preceding years
were 64 in 1886, 289, 125, 165, 153, 161, 48 and 219 in 1879. Measles
was, as I had anticipated, the most active and fatal epidemic of the
year.
WHOOPING COUGH.
Whooping Cough was again next to Measles, the most severely
epidemic and the most fatal of the Zymotic diseases, it having
occasioned 238 deaths, as against 205 in 1886, and 200, 268, 119, 299
and 172 in the five previous years.
The greatest fatality occurred during the last nine months of
the year.
DIARRHŒA.
To Diarrhœa 291 deaths were attributable, as against 307
in 1886, and 191, 266, 162, 149, 216 and 295 in the six previous
years. The deaths during the months of July and August were
239, or 82 per cent. of the whole mortality.
FEVER.
The deaths referred to Fever generally amounted only to 39,
as against 48 in 1886, and 55, 83, 86, 77 and 79 in the five
previous years.
DIPHTHERIA.
Diphtheria occasioned only 27 deaths, or just one half the
number, viz:—54 which occurred in 1886, as against 138, 114, 70,
54 and 42 in the five previous years. The prevalence of Scarlatina
in its turn during 1887 has again apparently lessened the number of
the deaths referred to Diphtheria,