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Zymotic Diseases.—The total number of fatal cases
in this class was 36. Five cases of croup represents what
was a mild epidemic of that disease in the district.
Only three fatal cases of the disease occurred during the
preceding ten years. For the past three years I have
used a table giving a comparative retrospect of the chief
epidemic diseases, and I still continue to employ it, with
the addition of a line giving the percentage of deaths
from these epidemic diseases to deaths from all causes in
each year.
Years.
1868
1869
1870
1871
1872
1873
1874
1875
1876
1877
1878
Small-pox. ... ... ... 1 ... ... ... ... 1 ... 1
Measles 1 5 4 1 ... 2 3 ... 1 2 7
Scarlatina. 2 6 3 21 7 ... ... ... 3 6 ...
Diphtheria 1 2 1 1 1 ... 1 4 ... 1 1
cough 6 3 1 6 1 ... 9 7 ... 4
Typhus,&c. 2 5 ... 1 ... 2 ... ... ... 4 3
Diarrhœa
& Cholera 5 7 8 6 5 1 6 7 5 7 10
TOTALS
11 31 19 32 19 6 10 20 19 20 26
Percentage of
Deaths from
uf deaths' 9.3 23.3 12.4 21.4 13.1 4.8 6.4 11.9 13.2 13.0 13.8
from all
causes.
From this table it will be seen that this is one of only
three years out of eleven in which a fatal case of Small Pox
has occurred in the Sub district. The disease was not so
prevalent, however, this year as last, 1877, in which no
fatal case occurred. The case was that of an infant a week
old, whose mother suffered from the disease immediately