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Zymotic Mortality.
The deaths from Zymotic disease will be
seen on referring to Table III. Out of the
14 deaths from these diseases no fewer than 10 are attributable
to Whooping Cough. This is a complaint over
which we have unfortunately but little control, as it does
not come under the Infectious Diseases Notification Act.
Being more or less present with us it is often treated,
even amongst the comparatively well to do, in the most
perfunctory manner, and children are allowed by their
parents to go out and about in most unsuitable weather,
and, as a natural consequence, contract various Respiratory
complications which so often prove fatal. Excluding
the deaths from Whooping Cough the Zymotic morfality
is very small, and although the Zymotic death-rate is
somewhat in excess of 1890, yet it is lower than in
1889. Of the 4 other deaths placed under this heading
3 are due to Influenza (also excluded from the Notification
Act) and 1 to Puerperal Fever. Not 1 death is due
to Scarlet Fever, Measles or Enteric Fever. The Zymotic
death-rate is 2.0. Last year it was 1.6, and in
1889, 2.4.