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fatality of Zymotic maladies, 8 of the 14 named in the
Table, viz., Measles, Scarlatina, Diphtheria, Fever, Whooping
Cough, Croup, Metria, aud Diarrhœa, contributing to the
register no fewer than 217 deaths of the 225 recorded.
Under all the diseases above mentioned there appears a
considerable increase upon the number registered in the
previous year. It will be seen, by comparing the tables of
the two years, that Small Pox is the only disease exhibiting
any diminution in the number of resulting deaths; there
were 11 deaths due to this disease registered in 1867, but
in the present table there will be found recorded one only.
Whether the new Vaccination Act has contributed in any
material degree to this gratifying result some persons
perhaps will be disposed to doubt, but judging from the
marked difference in the number of fatal cases recorded
in the present table and in those of previous reports, I am
disposed to believe the operation of this improved enactment
has had some little to do with the reduction of the mortality
from this disease observed in the past year. So great a
decrease as that, from a five years' average of 19 deaths to
one only in the past year is, I think, strongly confirmatory
of this opinion.
Other Diseases.—The mortality from Tubercular Diseases,
including Phthisis, has, as usual, been very great, greater
by 43 than it was in the preceding year. Of the 228 deaths
under this heading, 76 were registered as the result of
Phthisis alone, but this is a less number by 7 than was
noted in my last report.
The deaths that took place as the result of the diseases
included under the several headings of 'Brain and Nerves,'
'Heart,' 'Digestive Organs,' and some few others, will
also be found in the present table to stand at high figures,
so that it would have excited little surprise had the augmentation
of the death-rate of this Sub-district been much
greater than the above statistics show it to be.
Diseases and Deaths amongst the Out-door Union Poor.The
column relating to this Sub-district in Table V,