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Zymotic, Epidemic, or preventable diseases.—The total
number of deaths in this Sub-district during the year
1872 from these diseases is shewn in the following table,
arranged in the order of their frequency—
Diarrhoea 32
Whooping Cough 29
Measles 20
Fever (including Typhus, Typhoid, &c.) 13
Scarlatina 9
Diseases of Childbirth 8
Croup 6
Small Pox 6
Cholera (English) 2
Diphtheria 1
Total 126
This mortality from Zymotic diseases is at the rate of
4.2 per 1,000 persons living according to the estimated
mean population for the year; and at the rate of 23.2 per
cent of the total mortality from all causes.
The fatal cases of Diarrhoea, with one exception, occurred
to infants under one year of age. The two deaths
returned as arising from Cholera were probably of the
ordinary English type.
Whooping Cough and Measles have been prevalent
during the year. Small Pox is the only other disease of
this class calling for special remark, and it is found that
four of the six cases occurred under one year of age, one
between one and five, and the other above 20 years of
age. In only one of these cases is it stated that the
deceased had been vaccinated, and in that instance the
cause of death is given as "Suppressed Small Pox,"
leaving the real nature of the disease somewhat obscure.