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more detailed list which lias been drawn up for use in the
‘Annual Reports of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England,.
and which has been compiled in general accordance with the
classification of the Royal College of Physicians. The London
deaths, though they are only classified by the abridged list in
the Weekly Return, and in the Annual Summary, will be afterwards
classified by the full list in the .Annual Report of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages in England'" (Annual Summary, 1882).
Table 3 in the Appendix, in my previous reports, was framed
upon the lines of the less abridged list of the causes of death,
contained in previous annual summaries, and it was the basis, to
a greater or less extent, of other tables. As it was not possible to
accept the more abridged list contained in the annual summary
for 1882, but at the same time desirable to frame table 3 in the
greatest possible accordance with the full list to be hereafter
contained in the annual report, I placed myself in communication
with the Registrar-General.s Department, and having
been favoured with a copy of the proposed detailed list, I
brought the subject under the notice of the Society of Medical
Officers of Health, who, after devoting a large amount of
attention to the subject, agreed to revise the tables which they had
adopted, for the sake of uniformity, some ten years ago. The
tables 1 to 6 in the Appendix, therefore, will be found to present
some differences, as compared with similarly numbered tables in
my previous annual reports, as I felt it my duty to accept and
to use, without delay, the new forms settled by the Society.
With these preliminary remarks, I pass on to deal with the
remaining diseases included in the “Class" of
Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases, which comprises six
“Orders," the first and second “Miasmatic," and “Diarrhœal,"
including the diseases already dealt with.
Order 3, “Malarial Diseases," includes Remittent Fever and
Ague. Order 4, Zoogenous diseases, includes cowpox and effects
of vaccination, and such diseases as hydrophobia, glanders, and
splenic fever. Not one death, however, was registered from
any of the diseases in these two orders,