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in tables I and II, may be included:—acute inflammatory
affections of the respiratory organs, to which were attributed
308 deaths, comprising 141 among children under 5 years of
age; tubercular diseases, which caused 294 deaths, of which 223
were due to phthisis; hydrocephalus and convulsions of infancy,
which caused 176 deaths; premature birth and conditions related
to this, which (as before pointed out) accounted for 166 deaths;
violence, poison or accident, which caused 45 deaths; and
lastly, the various so-called "zymotic' diseases. 11 women died
in child-birth, 10 persons of erysipelas, 7 children of inherited
syphilis, and 4 persons of delirium tremens.
In regard to "zymotic" diseases it is necessary to go a little
more into detail.
Diphtheria caused 11 deaths, small-pox 35, measles 38, fever
53, scarlet fever 59, hooping cough 72, diarrhoea and dysentery
76 and cholera 44.
The following table shews the comparative prevalence of these
diseases in 1866 and 5 previous years
Diphtheria.
Small-Pox.
Measles.
Fever.
Scarlet Fever.
Hooping Cough.
Diarrhoea.
Cholera
1861
25
2
8
25
13
72
—
1862
40
0
32
64
101
53
54
1863
29
14
32
41
124
57
61
1864
16
10
29
51
83
61
69
1865
14
12
39
31
55
52
112
6
1866
11
35
38
53
59
72
76
44