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population. That this great reduction in the Zymotic
mortality (luring the past year was not due to the removal
of a larger number of patients to hospital, the deaths
amongst whom are not recorded in this sub-district, is
shewn by the circumstance, that by the addition of such
deaths to the foregoing calculation, the Zymotic deathrate
is still only 1.52 per 1000 of the population. The
fatality from each disease of the Epidemic class may
with advantage be examined separately.
Measles. The very extensive and fatal Epidemic of
this disease, which prevailed during the latter six months
of 1888, continued in a gradually diminishing extent, to
the middle of the past year when it subsided. 7 deaths
resulted which were 10 below the average number.
Scarlet Fever. This disease was unattended by fatality
within the sub-district; but 2 deaths occurred in Hospital
and were 7 below the average.
Diphtheria. Six deaths occurred from this dissase within
the sub-district, and 4 in Hospital; the combined number
exceeds the average by 4.
Fever, Enteric Five deaths took place in the sub-district
and Typhus.
and 1 in Hospital, and were 1 less than the
average.
Whooping- From this disease 6 deaths occurred in the
sub-district and 2 in Hospital, and together
were 17 less than the average.
Diarrhoea. This disease was as usual the most fatal of
the class, causing 21 deaths, all of which with one
exception occurred to infants under one year of age.
The number however is 6 less than the average.
Thus the deaths from each disease of the epidemic
class were, with the exception of Diphtheria, all below
the average, and for the most part very considerably so.