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61
Years.
Small Pox.
Measles.
Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria.
Whooping Cough
Fevers—Typhoid
and Typhus.
Diarrhœa and
Cholera.
Total deaths from
Epidemics.
Total deaths from
all causes.
Zymotic Death
Rate
General Death
Rate.
1874 .. 20 33 4 15 6 27 105 528 3.6 17.9
1875 2 3 22 6 17 2 22 74 548 2.5 18.2
1876 14 13 13 .. 17 5 24 86 545 2.8 17.7
1877 12 5 4 .. 12 4 18 55 467 1.8 14.8
1878 3 23 12 3 29 5 26 103 580 3.2 18.1
1879 .. 17 12 1 25 9 17 81 561 2.4 17.0
1880 2 19 21 3 25 4 36 112 544 3.3 14.9
1881 7 10 15 3 13 3 20 71 499 1.9 13.6
1882 1 15 26 4 17 7 4 74 544 1.9 14.5
1883 .. 33 8 7 16 3 19 86 580 2.3 15.1
1884 2 33 3 8 15 4 18 83 543 2.1 13.7
Measles and Whooping Cough are the two most fatal
zymotic diseases. This is not a necessary fact; both these
diseases are usually slight and recovery is complete, if the
patients are kept warm and unexposed. Such precautions
however are often neglected; and isolation of patients
suffering from these diseases being seldom enforced, the consequence
is that they become widely diffused.
In Scarlet Fever much more active precautions are
adopted, and the number of fatal cases for the last year
is only 3, as compared with 33 deaths from Measles and
15 from Whooping Cough. Unfortunately information
respecting but a small minority of the cases is communicated
to the sanitary authority. The only definite source of information
is the relieving office, and it is evident that only a small
proportion of cases can be known of in this way. Until a
compulsory registration of infectious diseases is enforced we
cannot expect to cope successfully with Scarlet Fever and
other epidemic diseases.
Diphtheria was the cause of 8 deaths during the year. A
careful examination of the distribution of all the fatal cases
during the last two years, shews that they are diffused