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centage was almost exactly the same. It is interesting
to note that while the working classes yield 60.9 per cent,
of all the deaths registered, they yield 75 per cent. of
deaths from Zymotic diseases.

Zymotic Table IV shows, that we have been very free
Diseases.
indeed from Zymotic disease during the year.
There have been no fatal cases of Small-Pox, Measles, or
Scarlet Fever recorded. The Zymotic death-rate was
only 1 per thousand of the population. This is the
lowest it has been with the exception of the year 1887,
during the last ten years. Although we have been very
free from fatal cases of Zymotic Disease, a number of
cases Scarlatina have occurred of a mild type. I am
quite convinced that in the presence of an epidemic of
this disease, the powers we possess are totally inadequate.
In the first place in the absence of compulsory notification,
cases may and do occur in crowded neighbourhoods without
the fact coming to the knowledge of the sanitary
authority until the period of convalescence when disinfection
is required. In the second place, these cases