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accordance with the more detailed list drawn up for use in
the Annual Report, I placed myself in communication with
the Registrar-General's Department, and having been favoured
with a copy of the new classification, I brought the subject
under the notice of the Society of Medical Officers of Health,
who decided to revise the tables which they had framed for
the sake of uniformity, some ten years previously. Tables
1 to 6, (Appendix), therefore, will be found to differ considerably
from similarly numbered tables in annual reports prior
to 1882, in which year I adopted 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, and Order 4, Zoogenous diseases, includes Cowpox
and effects of vaccination, hydrophobia, glanders, splenic fever,
&c., but no deaths were registered from any of these causes.
Order 5, "Venereal Diseases," includes syphilis,gonorrhœa,
and stricture of the urethra. Syphilis was the only fatal
disease in 1883, the deaths registered being 23—viz., 22 in the
Town sub-district, and 1 in Brompton: 17 of the deaths
were of infants under one year of age. If the truth were
known, it would probably appear that this Protean malady
was accountable, directly or indirectly for a much larger
number of deaths.
Order 6, Septic Diseases. This order comprises Erysipelas,
Pyemia, Septicemia, and Puerperal Fever, the total deaths
registered being 33.
Erysipelas was the cause of 10 deaths, all in the Town
sub-district, and 4 of them of children under one year of
age.
Pycemia and septicemia were the causes of 3 deaths, two of
them in the Brompton sub-district.