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From Diarrhoea, with which is grouped infantile
and other forms of so-called Cholera and Dvsentry, 37
deaths were recorded. These numbers were much lower
than for many years past.
Scarlatina contributed 36 deaths to the mortality
of the year. This is below the average of the past five
years.
The same observations will apply to the deaths from
Measles, numbering 33.
The diseases generally included under the heading
"Fevers" include Typhoid or Enteric Fever, Typhus,
simple, continued and relapsing fevers. Death, with
the exception of one case from simple continued fever,
arose from the Typhoid form in all the instances; the
total number of fatal fever cases being 14.
The other diseases of this class hardly call for
special remark, being few in number in so large a
population. It will be observed that no fatal case of
Small-pox occurred during the year.
The systematic removal of persons suffering from
Zymotic diseases when isolation cannot be insured, the free
supply of disinfectants where necessary, and the gratuitous,
prompt and effective disinfection of the apartments
furniture and clothing of persons so effected, seem to be
slowly but surely stamping out the infectious diseases.
No outbreak of disease could now occur without being
promptly met and confined within limits, and the
"plagues" of the middle ages, which in reality consisted
of many different forms of epidemic disease, could not
possibly recur with the enormous loss of life which
formerly took place.