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The salient points of this table, comparing it with that
given in the report of the previous year, are:—
1. A diminished number of deaths resulting from
Zymotic diseases generally, viz., from 20 in 1867 to 14 in
the past year.
2. A slight increase in the number of deaths (from 21
to 24) due to the tubercular class of diseases, including
Phthisis, the deaths (17) from the last named malady
exceeding the number registered in 1867 by one only.
3. A decrease, more or less large, in the deaths due to
the diseases tabulated under the respective headings of
"Brain and Nerves," "Digestive organs," and "Premature
Birth, Low Vitality, and Malformation but, on the other
hand, a slight increase in the number of those which
resulted from Diseases "Of the Heart," "Of the Respiratorv
Organs," and one or two other classes of disease
occupying a place in the table.
4. A very satisfactory diminution in the number of
deaths of infants and young children between birth and
ten years of age, viz., from 52 in 1867 to 36 in the past
year.
5. An equally satisfactory falling off in the number of
deaths amongst the poor and the working classes, the
decrease being from 63 in 1867 to 54 in the past year.
Zymotic Diseases. — The relative proportion and percentage
of deaths due to Zymotic diseases to deaths from all
causes that have occurred iu the past and ten previous
years, will be better understood by a comparison of the
figures embodied in the following table: