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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 close accordance with the more detailed list
drawn up for use in the Annual Report, the Society of Medical
Officers of Health revised certain Tables, which, at my instance,
they had framed for the sake of uniformity, some ten years previously,
and ultimately settled the forms of Tables 1—6 inclusive,
as they appear in the Appendix. It results, therefore, that these
Tables will be found to differ to some extent from similarly
numbered Tables in the annual reports prior to 1882. With
this explanation I pass on to deal with the remaining diseases
included in
Class 1.—Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases.
This class comprises six "Orders;" the first and second,
"Miasmatic" and "Diarrhoeal," 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,
cC.c.; but no deaths were registered from any of these causes.
Order 5, Venereal Diseases, includes Syphilis, Gonorrhoea,
and Stricture.of the Urethra. Syphilis was the registered cause
of 21 deaths, as against 15 and 26 in 1884.5. All but one of
these deaths occurred in the Town sub.district: 17 of them were
of children under five years of age. If the truth could be ascertained,
it would probably appear that this Protean malady was
accountable, directly or indirectly, for a number of deaths much
in excess of the record. There was one death from stricture of
the urethra.
Order 6, Septic Diseases. This order comprises Erysipelas,
Pyaemia, Septicemia, and Puerperal Fever, the total deaths
registered being 29, against 33 and 40 in 1884.5.
Erysipelas was the cause of 7 deaths only, against 26 in
1885, and all in the Town sub.district. One of the deaths was of
a child under one year of age.