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Zjmotic Mortality.
Epidemic Diseases,
their prevalence
and fatality.
The following table exhibits the total
deaths that occurred from Zymotic diseases,
particularizing those that resulted
from the seven principal Epidemic diseases during the
past and ten preceding years, and the relative proportion
which they bore to the deaths from all causes. It also
shews the increase or decrease of deaths in 1887 compared
with the annual average deaths in 1877-86, raised
in proportion to increase of population :—
Diseases.
1877
1878
1879
1880
1881
18S2
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
No. above
corrected _
average, cc
No. below
corrected •
aerage.
Seven principal Epidemic Diseases.
Small Pox 19 1 3 .. j 1*6
Measles.. 4 16 9 5 18 14 6 19 28 20 6 ..
S' arlet
Fever21 2 15 24 19 9 5 5 3 6 1 11
Diphtheria. 4 1 4 1 311 4 6 10 2.. 3
II Enteric I 938649 12 448 6.. 1
Whooping
Cough11 6 44 15 12 26 5 17 24 31 8 14
Diarrhoea i 16 19 7 20 19 29 10 27 35 28 30 6 ..
Cholera f
Total Deaths from
above Epidemic
Diseases.. 57 38 92 78 69 94 57 64 94 111 67 21
Other Zymotic
Diseases 6 10 12 14 7 14 20 19 3 5 4 8
Total I)< alhsfrom
ZymoticDiscases 63 48 104 92 76 108 77 83 97 116 71 30
Zymotic Death-
rate per 1,0U0 . 2 64 1 96 4 14 3 35 2 71 372 2\57 2*70 3 07 3*58 2 14 1*42
Total Deaths from
allcauses ,.;584 422 516 484 507 544 499 576 628 722 610 8
Per centage of
Deaths from Epidemics
to Deaths
from all causes 14*8 9'0 17'8 161 13*6 17 2 111*4 11 1 14*9 15*3 10 9 5 6
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