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shew a decrease from last year, both satisfactory facts to
record. The excess of births over deaths were also greater
than any previous year, and constitutes the natural increase
of our population.
The next Table I have to refer to, is one shewing the
number of deaths, during the year 1879, due to the seven
principal epidemic or Zymotic diseases. These diseases,
the opprobrium of Medical Science, have at all times
engaged the special attention of the Sanitarian, with the
view of alleviating, removing, or stamping them out, and
he hopes some day to achieve this great result, even though
at present it appears impossible, for he knows that to
perseverance in this direction much is possible.
Years.
1869
1870
1871
1872
1873
1874
1875
1876
1877
1878
1879
Small-pox 10 6 94 14 0 0 2 14 12 3 0
Measles 2 14 2 30 11 20 3 13 5 23 17
Scarlatina 29 45 20 6 2 33 22 13 4 12 12
Diphtheria 0 2 3 3 3 4 6 0 3 1
cough 29 9 18 25 14 15 17 17 12 29 25
Typhus 17 12 10 11 10 6 2 5 4 5 9
Diarrhœa
& Cholera
30
31 31 39 25 27 22 24 18
26
2
17
Totals 117 119 178 428 65 105 74 86 55 103 81
It is gratifying to note the absence of deaths from
Small Pox in the above Table. In the entire sub-district
there were in all about 8 cases of Small Pox, of which
5 occurred amongst the parish poor and 3 amongst other
classes; but fortunately no death from this most loathsome
disease took place in the past year in Clapham.
Of the other principal Zymotic diseases, Measles was
less in the past year than in 1878, but much in excess of