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At the beginning of the year Measles and Whooping
Cough prevailed rather extensively. The distribution
of the cases of epidemic disease during the year
may be seen at a glance in the following table.
1882
DISEASE.
First Second Third Fourth
Quarter. Quarter. Quarter. Quarter.
Mean Temperature 42°7 53°0 58°1 44°8
Small Pox
Measles 13
Scarlatina 2 2
Diphtheria 2 15 12
Whooping Cough 8
Diarrhoea 1 3 1
Fever 2 1 1
Total 26 5 18 14
Constitutional and Local Diseases.—The following
table will explain the relative proportions of the subclasses
of this group during the past 10 years, it will
be observed how closely the figures approximate year
by year, the different diseases holding very much the
same positions numerically throughout the series. The
reduction noted during the last few years in the tubercular
class is still more marked in the present year.
Diseases having an accidental origin (premature birth,
violence, &c.) are more liable to fluctuation, and this
year they are below the average.