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The death-rate, again, was remarkably low (19.0 per 1,000),
and with the exception of the year 1881, when it was 18.9, it was
the lowest recorded death-rate.
In some interesting paragraphs on statistics of deaths from
hydrophobia, it is recorded that 60 deaths were registered from
that disease in 1885, against 61 and 79 respectively in the years
1874 and 1877, which are the highest numbers recorded ; and in
order to allay alarm on this subject, Sir Brydges Henniker
states the important fact, "that the indisputable amount of apprehension
as regards this disease is quite disproportionate to the
risk of its occurrence. The risk of death from murder or homicide
is many times as great as the risk of death from hydrophobia."