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causes are 16 in excess of last year, it will be seen that
the increase is almost entirely due to the first class in the
table, and, under it, to the sub-classes of measles, croup,
whooping cough, and diarrhoea.
II. Constitutional Diseases.—This is a new group as
regards two of the sub-classes it includes, and these are
never absent from our mortality returns. 1 ubercular
diseases, of course, appear in the old form. This year
they have been especially fatal.
III. Local Diseases.—All the sub-classes of this
group have appeared in the old table. Respiratory diseases
have been particularly fatal during the past year,
IV. Developmental.—The sub-classes of this group
have also places in the old table. A decrease in the
number of deaths from premature birth, &c., is worthy of
notice.