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deaths against 19.5 in 1882 and 25.7 in 1881. This was owing
to the great dimunition in the mortality from small.pox, searlet
fever, whooping cough and diarhœa. As there was so great a
decrease in the number of zymotic deaths, the proportional
numbers from other diseases were necessarily larger than usual.
Thus, constitutional diseases, chiefly cancer and consumption,
oaused 759 deaths or 21.5, against 688 or 196 per cent in 1882.
Local Diseases, i.e., those which afflict certain organs, as the
lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, &c., caused 1,674 deaths, or 472 per
cent, in 1883 against 1,657 in 1882, whilst the number of deaths
assigned to developmental diseases were 472 or 13.2 per cent.,
against 378 or 10"8 per cent, in 1882. This group of diseases
includes premature birth, atrophy and debility, and old age.
The number of deaths from violence was less than usual, having
been 78 or 2.2 per cent, of the whole against 100 or 2.9 in 1882.
The number of deaths under 1 year was somewhat greater
than in 1882, having been 816 or 23.0 per cent, against 768 or
or 21.9. This is not a large excess, and was owing to the
increased number of deaths registered from convulsions and
premature births, but the mortality between 1 and 5 years of
age was less than usual, as only 586 deaths were registered at
this age period against 683 in 1882, giving with those at under
1 year, 39.5 per cent, of deaths under 5 years against 41.4 per
cent, in 1882. This is satisfactory, as an excessive mortality
under 5 years, as a rule, indicates something wrong in the
sanitary arrangements, unless the proportions of deaths at this
age arises from the temporary prevalence of some particidar
disease. At the age period of 5 to 15 years there were 160
deaths or 4.5 per cent, of the total; at 15 to 25 years there were
163 deaths or 4.6 per oent.; at 25 to 35 years there were 222
deaths or 6.3 per cent.; at 35 to 45 years there were 274 deaths
or 7.7 per cent.; at 45 to 55 years there 295 deaths or 8.3 per
cent.; at 55 to 65 years there were 326 deaths or 9.2 per cent.;
and at 65 to 75 years there were 376 deaths or 10.6 per cent.,
being the largest number during any 10 years of life. Between