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YEARS.
Number of Deaths
from all Causes.
No. of Deaths from
Seven of the principal
Epidemic
Diseases.
Percentage of Deaths
from seven principal
Epidemics
to Deaths from
all causes.
1863 129 29 224
1864 121 11 9.0
1865 115 11 9.5
1866 121 16 13.2
1867 128 20 15.6
1868 118 14 11.8
1869 133 31 23.3
1870 145 19 12.4
1871 151 32 21.4
1872 144 20 14.0
1873 125 6 4.8
By reference to the next Table it will be seen that
there was recorded no mortality whatever during the entire
year from the three more dangerous forms of Zymotic
disease, viz., Small Pox, Scarlatina, and Diphtheria. This
Table will also furnish the usual statistics from which to
gather the causes of the entire mortality of the year, as
well as the sex, ages, and social positions of the deceased
persons, in precisely the same way as all former Mortality
Tables have done, so as to admit of the readiest possible
comparison.
It should be remarked in reference to this Table, that
in consequence of the past year concluding only three days
before the Saturday on which the Registrar General alway s
makes up his statistics for publication, it has been thought
advisable to embrace the death registrations up to the
3rd January of the present year, thus making the year 1873
to consist of 53 weeks instead of 52. In some of the larger
Sub-districts this extension may make a considerable difference
in calculating the rates of mortality, but in this
Parish it forms a disturbing element to the extent of one
death only beyond the tabulation of 52 weeks.
To secure uniformity it is deemed advisable to follow
in each year the tabulation arrangements of the Registrar
General, otherwise confusion might result in making the
necessary comparisons.