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Order 3, Malarial Diseases, includes Remittent Fever and
Ague; Order 4, Zoogenous Diseases, includes Cowpox and
Effects of Vaccination, Hydrophobia, Glanders and Splenic Fever.
No death was registered from any of these causes.
Order 5, Venereal Diseases, includes Syphilis, Gonorrhoea,
Stricture of the Urethra. Syphilis was the registered cause of 13
deaths, as against 26, 21, and 17 in 1885-6-7. Ten of these
deaths occurred in the Town sub-district; 11 of them were of
children under one year of age. If the truth could be discovered,
it would probably appear that this Protean malady was accountable,
directly or indirectly, for a number of deaths considerably
in excess of the record. There was one death from stricture of
the urethra.
Order 6, Septic Diseases. This order comprises Erysipelas,
Pyaemia, Septicaemia., and Puerperal Fever, the total deaths
registered being 28, against 40, 29, and 35 in 1885-6-7.
Erysipelas was the cause of 12 deaths, against 26, 7, and
11 in 1885-6-7, five of them only in the Town sub-district. One
of the deaths was of a child under one year of age.
Pycemia and Septicaemia were the cause of 7 deaths;
6 of them in the Town sub-district. There were 7, 3, and 7
deaths from these causes in 1885-6-7.
Puerperal Fever was the registered cause of nine deaths,
against 7,19, and 17 in 1885-6-7 respectively: seven of them
in the Town sub-district. Three of the deaths were of
women between 15 and 25 years of age, four between 25 and 35,
and two between 35 and 45. In addition to these nine deaths,
ten deaths, six of them in the Town sub-district, were registered
as having occurred in " childbirth," as against 9, 15, and 13 in
the three preceding years. Puerperal fever is a communicable
disease depending on "blood poisoning," whereas other causes
of death connected with child-birth are, so to say, accidental, e.g.,
hemorrhage ("flooding"). The deaths registered as having