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Class I.
SPECIFIC FEBRILE OR ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The total number of deaths referred to this class of diseases was
497, of which 110 were cases of young children under five years of
age ; amongst these 145 occurred during the first year of life ; 158
were from Measles; 90 from Whooping Cough; and 72 from
Diarrhæal Diseases.
THE SEVEN PRINCIPAL ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The deaths from the diseases grouped under the two orders,
Miasmatic and Diarrhceal, were 463, against 578 last year—a
decrease of 115. The decennial average of Zymotic deaths for the
ten years, 1875 to 1884, was 532. (See Table V.)
In Table D are shewn the deaths from each of these diseases
oompared with those of the preceding year.