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I stated that a smaller mortality might be expected, and this
table shows my forecast to have been correct, as 51 deaths only
were registered against 85 iu 1871, 181 in 1870, and 247 in
1869. Whooping cough was very fatal, the death rate being
greater than the corrected average of any year since the passing
of the Metx-opolis Local Management Act, except in 1866 and
1869. The number of deaths from fever is larger than iu 1871,
but is smaller than in any other year since 1856, due allowance
being made for increase of population The number, 50,
would have been less still if the Fever Hospital had not been in
the district, for the same reasons as stated when speaking of
small-pox. The mortality from diarrhoea was large, but not
more than might have been expected, when the temperature of
July, August, and September—and especially of July—is
taken into consideration.

This table shows that out of 2487 deaths no less than 637
occurred during the first year of life. This is a very large
proportion, and arises from the excessively large number of
infants who died from whooping cough, small-pox, braiu
disease, and premature birth and debility. There were 378 or
15.2 per cent. of deaths between 1 and 5 years old, 108 or 4.3
per cent. between 5 and 15, 129 or 5.4 per cent. between 15