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Zymotic Diseases.—The following table gives a comparative
view of this group during the eleven years 1874—84, and it
will be seen that the year under review compares favourably
with the other years of the series. A total of 28 deaths from
the chief epidemic diseases occurred out of 199 deaths from
all causes. The percentage is only 14.07. Whooping Cough
was somewhat prevalent, and Diarrhoea claimed about its
usual number of victims. The other diseases were hardly
represented at all with the exception of Diphtheria.
Yeaes. 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 l884
Small-Pox .. .. 1 .. 1 .. .. .. .. .. 1
Measles 3 .. 1 2 7 .. .. 6 13 2 1
Scarlatina .. .. 3 6 .. 3 1 8 4 7 ..
Diphtheria 1 4 .. 1 1 .. .. 1 29 24 10
Whooping-
cough .. 9 7 .. 4 8 9 3 8 2 8
Typhoid &c .. .. .. 4 3 2 4 1 4 2 ..
Diarrhœa
& Cholera 6 7 5 7 10 7 10 3 5 5 8
Total 10 20 17 20 26 20 24 22 63 42 28
Percentage of
Deaths from
to deaths 6.4 11.9 18.2 13.0 13.8 11.2 13.5 13.17 30.1 17.3 14.07
from all
causes.
This disease was unhappily both prevalent and fatal during
the year 1882, and almost equally fatal though much less
prevalent during the following year. At the commencement
of the present year isolated cases continued to occur without
anything approaching an epidemic existing. These still
maintained the severe type of the preceding year, and the
fatal cases held an unusually high ratio to the total number
of cases, which were really few and scattered,