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satisfactory. By far the most fatal age period was 0-5 years,
as no less than 555 deaths from zymotic diseases were registered
during the first five years of life against 277 at all ages above
5 years. These deaths were caused chiefly by small pox,
measles, scarlet fever, whooping cough and diarrhoea, and
especially by the last named disease and measles. The total
mortality under 5 years was high, viz. 42.7 per cent, of the
whole, but it was smaller than in 1880, when it was 44'8 per
cent. It was also in excess of the mean for the 10 years
1866-75 by as much as 2'7 per cent. The percentage of deaths
from zymotic diseases to total deaths was 25.7; from constitutional
diseases, i.e. gout, dropsy, cancer, consumption, water on
the brain and mortification, 16.0 percent.; from local diseases, i.e.
from inflamatory and other diseases, except tubercular, affecting
various organs of the body, viz. the lungs, heart, kidneys,
liver, &c., the percentage was 44.1 per cent.; from developmental
diseases, viz. premature birth, old age, atrophy and
debility it was 11.6 per cent., and from violent deaths 2.6 per
cent., which was less than usual. The ages at death were as
follows—23.0 per cent, of the deaths from all causes occurred
under 1 year of age; 19.7 per cent, between 1 and 5 years of
age; 6.5 per cent, between 5 and 15; 5.5 per cent, between 15
and 25; 6.7 per cent, between 25 and 35 and between
35 and 45 years of age; 6.6 per cent, between 45 and 55;
71 per cent, between 55 and 65; 10.3 per cent, between 65
and 75; 6.6 per cent, between 75 and 85, and 13 per cent,
above 85 years of age. There were 143 deaths above 80 years
of age, or nearly 4 per cent, of the whole. Of these 36 occurred
between 80 and 81 years of age; 10 between 81 and 82;
20 between 82 and 83; 18 between 83 and 84; 15 between
84 and 85; 9 between 85 and 86, and the same number between
86 and 87; 8 between 87 and 88; 3 between 88 and 89, and
5 between 89 and 90. There were 10 deaths above 90 years of
age, viz. 3 at 90-91; 2 at 91-2; 2 at 93-94; 2 at 94-95; and 1
at 98 years of age. There was not any death at 100 or
upwards. There was an unusual number of deaths from small