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100
Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
Zymotic Diseases.
During the year 1898, 194 deaths, 110 of males and
84 of females, occurred from diseases of a zymotic nature,
an increase of 66 compared with the year 1897, and
41.9 above the corrected decennial average. This increase
is wholly due to the greater number of deaths
from Measles, Whooping-cough and Diarrhoea, as compared
with last year. The most noticeable increase is,
however, in the number of deaths from Diarrhoea, 83
deaths having been registered as occurring from this,
an increase of 45 compared with last year, and of 43 1
compared with the corrected decennial average. The
number of deaths which occurred from the notifiable
diseases, viz.: from Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Typhoid
Fever, Puerperal Fever, and Erysipelas was 27, compared
with 46 in 1897, 20 in 1896, and 19 in 1895.
Table IV. shows the number of deaths from the
seven principal epidemic diseases, the total deaths from
all zymotic diseases, the zymotic death-rate per 1,000,
the total deaths from all causes, and the percentage of
deaths from all zymotic diseases to deaths from all causes
for the year, as well as for the 10 preceding years, and
also the number above or below the decennial average
corrected for increase of population.