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subsequent disinfection and other sanitary measures that
these diseases did not become epidemic and to the same cause
the low Zymotic Mortality must be ascribed.
Measles, Whooping-cough, and Diarrhœa contributed 8, 9,
and 11 deaths respectively.
Altogether the seven principal diseases in the Zymotic class
form 9.7 per cent of deaths from all causes and yield a rate
of 1.48 per 1,000 per annum of the population.
Other Diseases.—The table given below contrasts all
deaths from non.zymotic diseases. Taken collectively the
number exceeds the decennial average. The mortality in
class 3, diseases of the brain and nerves; and in class 5,
respiratory diseases was considerably above the average, as
it was also in class 11; in this latter class there were 55
deaths, forming 12.5 per cent of all causes of death as
against 9.0 per cent in 1883.
In the Tubercular class there were 58 deaths, 30 of which
were from Phthisis pulmonalis—16 of males and 14 of females.
4 were under 20, 17 between 20 and 40, and 9 were over 40
years of age.
The Tubercular class formed 13.4 per cent of all deaths as
against 13.6 per cent last year.
The diseases in classes 3, 4, 5, 6, 11, and 13, caused
respectively and in order 15.2, 7.9, 16.1, 10.2, 12.5, 4.3 per
cent., as against 14.3, 11.4, 14.8, 10.7, 9.0, 7.8 per cent. in the
previous year.
Thus only in classes 4, 6, and 13, was the per centage
below that of the year 1883.
The following Table contrasts all deaths from non.zymotic
diseases during the past nine years.