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* Deaths in Outlying Institutions not included.
Causation of Mortality On reference to Table I. the relative proportional
amount of mortality which resulted from the
several groups into which the diseases and other causes
of death are classified, are seen to have been as follows :
—187 deaths were due to the zymotic and 651 to the
non.zymotic group, the latter including constitutional
141; local 106 ; developmental 80 ; and violence 18.
Zymotic Diseases.
The deaths referred to diseases of this class formed
upwards of 22 per cent, of the total mortality, and
exceeded the decennial average number by 02, as seen
in the following Table, which exhibits the total number
of deaths that resulted from these disease*, during the
past and ten preceding years and the relative proportion
which they bore to the deaths from all causes. The
deaths from the seven principal epidemic diseases of' the
class are shewn separately, and their increase or decrease
in 1892 compared with their preceding decennial
averages corrected for increase of population,
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