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SPECIAL CAUSES OF DEATH.
(Vide Table III.)
Class I.—ZYMOTIC DISEASE.
This class includes the orders Miasmatic, Enthetic, and Parasitic.
The number of deaths recorded under these heads was 553, of which
428 were those of young children. As usual, the most fatal period to
infantile life was the first year, 148 deaths referred to the class of
diseases under consideration having happened under that age; of
these 5 1 were from Whooping cough, and 42 from Diarrhoea.
THE SEVEN PRINCIPAL ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The deaths registered from the class of diseases usually included
under this head were 455, against 477 last year—a decrease of 22.
The annexed table shews the mortality for this year contrasted with
last.
TABLE D.
1878.
1879.
Small Pox
22
1
Measles
59
106
Scarlet Fever
68
76
Diphtheria
14
12
Whooping Cough
192
147
Fever
Typhus
5
1
Enteric
26
33
Simple
5
9
Diarrhœa
80
68
Cholera
6
2
From the returns of the fever and Small Pox hospitals, however, we
find that 62 cases of fever and 34 cases of Small Pox have been removed
from this parish; 13 of the fever patients and 6 of those suffering
from Small Pox died in hospital; these 19 must, therefore, be added
to the 455 registered deaths, making the total 474, and giving a
Zymotic death-rate of 3.5 against 3.9 last year, the Zymotic death-rate
for London being 3.3.
The subjoined table has been prepaid for me by Mr. Burrows
from the weekly returns of the Asylums Board, supplied to the
Guardians of this parish for the year 1879.