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are ranged many deaths the exact cause of which is
not determined, and which especially includes many
children dying of hereditary diseases, such as Scrofula
and Syphilis; 11th. Causes not specified, a head which I
have adopted as the most convenient for the classification
of all deaths, the cause of which is not certified by
medical practitioners, and of deaths the cause of which
has been the ostensible object of inquiry in the Coroner's
Court, ending in the unmeaning verdicts: "Died of the
visitation of God," "Natural Death," &c., 85; 12th.
Measles, 83; 13th. Diseases of the Heart and Blood
Vessels, 79.
On comparing the mortality from the chief diseases
in the three years, we find that Measles, Hooping.Cough
and Diarrhoea, have been more fatal in 1857 than in 1856
and 1855; whilst Small.Pox, Scarlatina, Croup, Typhus.
Fever, and Puerperal Fever were less fatal.
The following shows the progress of Vaccination
in the three years under comparison.