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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 are classified,
are seen on reference to Table I. to have been as
follows:—To the Zymotic group 97 deaths were
attributed, and to the Non-Zymotic 659; the latter including
Constitutional 138; Local 428; Developmental
93; and Violence 24.
Zymotic Diseases.
The whole of the 97 deaths referred to this group of
diseases, with one exception, belonged to the Epidemic
class. They were 48 in number less than in 1890, and
29 less than the corrected decennial average; they represented
a death-rate of 2 per 1,000 of the population, or
1.3 less than the average, and 10.3 per cent. of the total
mortality, or 7.3 per cent. less than the average.
The total number of deaths that resulted from Zymotic
diseases during the past and ten preceding years, and
the relative proportion which they bore to the deaths
from all causes are shewn in the following Table. The
deaths from the seven principal epidemic diseases of the
class are set forth separately, and their increase or
decrease in 1891 compared with their preceding decennial
averages corrected for increase of population:—