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Thus far I have dealt with the "seven principal diseases
of the zymotic class," comprising, with Cholera and Influenza,
all those Maladies which in Table III, (Appendix),go to make
up Orders 1 and 2 (Miasmatic and Diarrhceal Diseases), in
class 1 in the Registrar General's Classification, " Specific
Febrile or Zymotic Diseases."
Still dealing with this important Class, it appears that no
deaths were registered from Malarial Diseases, Order 3, viz.,
Remittent Fever and Ague; nor from Zoogenous Diseases
comprised in Order 4, viz., Cow-pox and Effects of Vaccination
and "Other Diseases," e.g,. Hydrophobia, Glanders, Splenic
Fever. I pass on therefore to—
Order 5, Venereal Diseases, which includes Syphilis,
Gonorrhœa, and Stricture of the Urethra. Syphilis was the
registered cause of 10 deaths, against 26, 14 and 13 in the
preceding three years respectively. Nine of these deaths
occurred in the Town sub-district: 5 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 four deaths
from gonorrhoea and stricture of the urethra.
Order 6, Septic Diseases. This order comprises Erysipelas
Pyæmia, Septicæmia and Puerperal Fever, the total deaths
registered being 23, against 16, 24 and 18 in the preceding three
years respectively. Erysipelas was the cause of 11 deaths,*
against 8 in each of the preceding three years, seven of them
in the Town sub-district. Two of the deaths were of children
under one year of age. Pyæmia and Septiæmia were the
causes of 4 deaths, two in each of the sub-districts. There were
2, 6 and 5 deaths from these causes in the preceding three
years respectively.
* The notified cases were 192, 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.