View report page

18
mortality was very great. Convulsive diseases of infants produced
a relatively larger mortality than in 1878, but from
wasting diseases of infants the death.rate was smaller; that
from the two together being nearly identical. When the number
of deaths is compared with population, which is much the best
test, we find that there were only 2.61 deaths from all zymotic
diseases per 1,000 population, which is very small, the death.rate
from the seven chief zymotic diseases in all England having been
2.39 per 1,000. From tubercular diseases there were 8.68 deaths
per 1,000, against 2.90 in 1877 and 1878; but the mortality
from inflammatory pulmonary diseases was as high as 4.53 per
1,000, against 3.42 and 3.68 in 1877 and 1878. The death.rate
from wasting and convulsive diseases of infants was 2.25 per
1,000 population, against 2.23 in 1878, and 2.60 in 1877.