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Scarlet fever caused one death in the Asylum; while four cases of this
illness were notified. The cause was attributed to a person admitted from
an Infirmary suffering from scarlet fever. The measures adopted by the Medical
Superintendent of the Asylum prevented the illness from spreading.
Infantile Mortality.
The rate of Infantile Mortality, or annual number of deaths of infants under
one year of age to every thousand births registered during the same year, was:
For the year 1895, 117: in 1894 the rate was 140 : in 1893 the rate was 114;
in 1892 is was 78: in 1891 is was 105; in 1890 the rate was 108; in 1889 it
was 132; in 1888 it was 120. According to the Registrar-General's latest
annual report for 1893, the Infantile Mortality for England and Wales was 159
in a thousand. The average mortality of infants from all causes in the four
decennia ending with 1890 had been in the proportions of 154, 154, 149, 142
respectively to 1,000 births.
Zymotic Death-rate.
The zymotic death-rate, or death-rate from chief infectious diseases, was
equal to a rate of 0.9, or not quite one per 1,000 of the population for the year
1895. The chief specific febrile or zymotic diseases are: Small-pox, measles
diarrhoea ; typhoid fever ; influenza; erysipelas, puerperal fever, and pyæmia.
The number of deaths from zymotic diseases was seven; three from
diarrhœa, ??? and pyæmia.

TABLE I.
Showing population, inhabited houses, births, and deaths for years 1884 to
1895, inclusive.
The population of the ten years (1884 to 1893) has been calculated in accordance
with the census returns of the years 1881 and 1891, and corrected accordingly.

Mean annual rates per 1,000 for ten years, 1884 to 1893.
Birth-rate, 33.0 per 1,000 of population.
Death-rate, 11.8 per 1,000 of population living at all ages.