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ASSIGNED CAUSES OF DEATH.
Having already (at page 15) 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 the Annual Summary of the RegistrarGeneral,
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.—V. 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 "Diarrhceal," including the diseases already
dealt with (at page 15).
Orders 3 and 4, Malarial Diseases, and Zoogenous Diseases :
no death returned.
Order 5, Venereal Diseases, includes Syphilis, Gonorrhoea
and Stricture of the Urethra. Syphilis was the registered cause
of 14 deaths, against 17, 13 and 26 in 1887-8-9. Ten of these
deaths occurred in the Town sub-district: 9 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 account-