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Summary for 1882, but, at tlie same time, desirable to frame
Table 3 in close 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,
with the result that the Society decided to revise the tables, which
they had framed for the sake of uniformity some ten years
previously, and ultimately settled the forms as they appear in the
Appendix. It results therefore that Tables 1 to 5 will be found to
differ to some extent from similarly numbered tables in the annual
reports prior to 1882. 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
" Diarrheal," 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,
d'C., but no deaths were registered from any of these causes.
Order 5, " Venereal Diseases," includes Syphilis, Gonorrhoea,
and Stricture oj the Urethra. Syphilis was the only fatal disease
registered in 1883, the deaths, as registered, being 15—viz., 12 in
the Town sub-district, and 3 in Brompton : 14 of the deaths were
of children under five years 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,
Pycemia, Septicemia, and Puerperal Fever, the total deaths
registered being 33.
Erysipelas was the cause of 11 deaths, 8 of them in the Town
sub-district, and 2 of them of children under one year of age.
Pycemia and Septicemia were the causes of 8 deaths, two of
them in the Brompton sub-district.
Puerperal Fever was the registered cause of 14 deaths, as
against 26 in 1883, 10 of them in the Town sub-district. Four