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15 of persons belonging to the trading classes; and 34 of
persons belonging to gentle and professional classes.
Still dealing with Class 1 (Specific Febrile or Zymotic
Diseases), having disposed of Orders 1 and 2 (Miasmatic and
Diarrhoeal Diseases) and no deaths having been registered
from " Malarial Diseases," or " Zoogenous Diseases,"
comprised in Orders 3 and 4, I pass on to—
Order 5, Venereal Diseases, which includes Syphilis,
Gonorrhoea and Stricture of the Urethra. Syphilis was the
registered cause of 13 deaths, against 13, 26 and 14 in the
three preceding years respectively. Ten of these deaths
occurred in the Town sub-district : 11 of them were of
children under one year of age. If the truth were known
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 were two deaths
from gonorrhoea and stricture of the urethra.
Order 6, Septic Diseases. This order comprises
Erysipelas, Pyaemia, Septicemia and Puerperal Fever, the total
deaths registered being 18, against 28, 16 and 24 in the three
preceding years respectively. Erysipelas was the cause of 8
deaths,*-against 12, 8 and 8 in 1888-89-90 ; six of them in the
Town sub-district. One of the deaths was of a child under
one year of age. Pyccmia and Septicaemia were the causes of
5 deaths, three of them in the Town sub-district. There
were 7, 2 and 6 deaths, from these causes in 188S-89-90 respectively.
* The notified cases were 203, many of them being of traumatic origin, unimportant
in character, and such as the framers of the Act could scarcely have
intended to be notified.