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•Deaths in Outlying Institutions not included.
Causes
of Death.
The relative proportions in the causation
of mortality borne by the several groups into
which the diseases and other causes of death ere classified
are seen in table I. to have been numerically as follows,
viz.:—To the Zymotic group 145 deaths are referred ; to
the Non-Zymotic 613 ; the latter including Constitutional
147, Local 388, Developmental 78; and to Violence
27; while in two instances the cause was ill-defined or
not specified.
Zymotic Diseases.
The total number of deaths that resulted from this
group of diseases amounted to 145, 134 of which belonged
to the Epidemic class. They were 98 more than in 1889
and 32 more than the average of the preceding ten years;
they formed 18.4 per cent. of all deaths, and 3.2 per
1,000 of the population corresponding in the latter respect
with the average rate. During the year 1889 (which
however enjoyed an exceptional immunity from such
diseases) they formed 9.5 per cent. of the total mortality,
and 1.35 per 1000 of the population.