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There are however, some symptoms indicative of a
renewed outbreak, with which should it arrive, the
Sanitary Authority will be at once enabled to deal.
Diphtheria caused 6 deaths., and has like all this class
of disease, become much less formidable and fatal than
formerly, as the result of improved sanitation.
Other Zymotic Diseases are but few in number and of
comparative rarity.
Other Diseases of the non-zymotic class.—Reference to
table V. will illustrate the comparative prevalence of
these diseases during 1886 compared with the years of
the preceding decade.
It will be observed that there is very little variation
in the numbers if compared with the increase in the
population, with the exeeption of a progressive decrease,
which quite as forcibly as the decrease in the zymotic
mortality points to a lowered death rate, and consequently
to less sickness and prolonged life.