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ASSIGNED CAUSES OF DEATH.
Having already (at page 12) treated of the deaths from the
"principal diseases of the zymotic class," I now proceed to deal
with the deaths from the remaining diseases in this class,
premising that the classification of the causes of death in the
Weekly Returns and Annual Summary of the Registrar-General
was considerably modified in 1882. The list of causes, in
its new form, is an abbreviation of the more detailed list used
in the Annual Reports of Births, Deaths and Marriages in
England. Table III. in my reports prior to 1882 was framed
upon the lines of the abridged list of the causes in the Annual
Summary, and was the basis of some of the other Tables. It
being desirable that Table III. should accord with the new
list used in the Annual Report, the Society of Medical Officers
of Health revised certain Tables, framed at my instance, for
uniformity, in 1872, and settled the forms of Tables I.—Y.
as they appear in the Appendix. With this explanation, I pass
on to deal with the remaining diseases in
Class I.—Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases.
This class comprises six " Orders; " the first and second,
" Miasmatic" and " Diarrheal," including the diseases already
dealt with (at page 12).
Order 3, Malarial Diseases ; no deaths- Order 4, Zoogenous
Diseases, includes Hydrophobia; one death.
Order 5, Yenereal Diseases, includes Syphilis, Gonorrhoea
and Stricture of the Urethra. Syphilis was the registered cause
of 26 deaths, against 21, 17 and 13 in 1886-7-8. Twenty-two
of these deaths occurred in the Town sub-district: 21 of them
were of children under one year of age. If the truth could be