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mortality of the year. This is rather in excess of the
proceeding year, but in accord with the average.
Above 80 years of age 11 persons died. This
number is smaller than usual. Of these 3 were males
and 8 females, about the usual proportion.
Zymotic or Epidemic Diseases.—In 188 L I had to
record a diminution in the number of deaths from
diseases of this class to a total of 217, diseases over
which sanitary measures are presumed to exercise the
greatest amount of control. I have to report that
during 1882 this small number was farther reduced to
194, and the zymotic death-rate per thousand of the
population, which, during the year 1881 was 3*7 has
during 1882 been reduced to 32 per thousand. The
usual table is here appended in the order of greatest
fatality, with zymotic mortality for last five years.
1882
Whooping-cough has been the most fatal of the
zymotic diseases during the year under report and is the
disease over which preventive measures appear to be the
least applicable, the mortality from this disease has
slightly exceeded the average, but was greater in 1878.
1881
1880
1879
1878
Whooping Cough
Diarrhoea and Infantile Cholera
Scarlatina
Measles
56
37
36
33
37
45
20
60
43
78
63
22
39
43
44
47
63
71
19
6
f Typhoid. 14
Fevers 3 Typhus 2
(. Relapsing 1
14
17
15
13
12
JJipthena
Metria (Childbirth)
Erysipelas
Croup
Carbuncle
Small Pox
7
4
3
3
1
0
3
8
6
4
0
17
2
5
4
4
0
1
6
12
4
9
0
1
4
2
0
12
0
5
Total
194
217
237
218
206
Zymotic Death-rate per 1,000
per Annum
3.2
3.7
4.3
3.9
3.7