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that with the two or three exceptions (Diarrhœa especially,
which disease proved fatal in no less than 27 cases in 1857)
most of the other principal zymotic maladies, (Small-pox,
Measles and Scarlatina), included in the table, were fatal
in a much larger number of cases in 1863 than in any year
since 1856.
Years.
1856
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861
1862
1863
Small-pox 1 0 1 9 6 6 1 11
Measles 14 2 14 2 20 0 6 24
Scarlatina 9 8 25 26 24 22 13 28
Diphtheria 0 0 0 0 9 13 3 1
Whooping-cough 4 13 13 6 21 14 14 9
Typhus 4 7 11 12 6 5 8 6
Diarrhœa 4 27 16 11 6 16 7 16
Totals 36 57 80 66 91 76 52 95
SMALL POX AND VACCINATION.
In the past year I successfully vaccinated in 336 cases,
which is the largest number recorded in any year of the
eight referred to in the above table. I also re-vaccinated
in 132 cases.
It is not too much to say, therefore, seeing how exposed
this large number of persons must have been to the contagion
of small-pox, during its prevalence in this, and surrounding
parishes, that the probabilities are very many
lives were saved through the timely employment of this
valuable protective measure. At the same time I am
bound to note the fact of 8 of the re-vaccinated persons,
and as many as 20 of the primarily vaccinated subsequently
took the disease, but all these, it is satisfactory to remark,