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the social position of the deceased persons, and it is believed with other
information of equal interest to the statician and philanthropist.
Prevalence of Epidemic Diseases.
From five of the principal Epidemic or Zymotic diseases, viz:—
measles, scarlatina, whooping-cough, diarrhaea and continued fever,
there resulted 25 deaths, which is five less than took place from the
same maladies during the previous or March quarter of the present year,
and thirteen less than were registered in the corresponding quarter of
last year.
It is also a very gratifying circumstance to record that during both
the March and June quarters of the present year, not a single death
has been registered as the result of small pox.
Whooping Cough it appears has been the most fatal amongst zymotic
maladies, numbering ten victims in the entire district. Next to this,
Scarlatina has resulted in the greatest number of deaths during the
quarter, eight persons having succumbed to that disease. From fever
of a typhoid character seven fatal cases have been recorded in the
Registrars returns.
Sickness and Mortality amongst the Union Poor.
Of 1334 cases of sickness amongst the recipients of parochial relief,
both in the Workhouse, and in the several sub-districts under the care
of the Union Medical Officers, forty-eight only have resulted in death
during the three months, a very small proportion considering the many
disadvantages and drawbacks under which the treatment of disease
amongst this class is frequently undertaken.
The highest mortality amongst the pauper population of the district,
(vide table 4), appears under the head phthisis, sixteen persons having
died of that fatal and distressing malady out of twenty-eight who came
under treatment. From lung diseases, exclusive of phthisis,, the ratio
of deaths amongst the same class to the cases treated, was 9 to 160, from
measles it was 1 to 16, whooping-cough 2 to 37, whilst of 18 cases of
scarlatina, 65 of diarhoea and dysentery, 36 of fever, and 12 of erysipelas
no deaths appear to have been registered. Of 962 cases of other
diseases, injuries, accidents, &c., not included in any of the classes
above-named, there were registered in the Medical Relief Books of the
Union 19 deaths only. Upon the whole, it is believed a more satisfac-