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between 5 and 10. 27 individuals died between 10 and 15 years
of age, 32 between 15 and 20, 83 between 20 and 30, 117 between
30 and 40, 109 between 40 and 50, 115 between 50 and
60, 160 between 60 and 70, 129 between 70 and 80, 63 between
80 and 90, 10 between 90 and 100, and one whose age exceeded
a century.
101 deaths are classified under the head of " violence, privation,
poison, and premature birth;" 20 under that of "fever;"
7 under that of "dysentery and acute diarrhoea" (not of infants);
143 under that of " scarlet fever;" 7 under that of " small-pox;"
12 under that of " erysipelas and puerperal fever;" 126 under
that of " diarrhoea, bronchitis, and pneumonia of infants under
3 years of age;'' 108 under that of "measles, hooping-cough,
and croup;" 108 under that of "hydrocephalus and convulsions
of infancy 169 under that of "phthisis and other tubercular
diseases;" and 639 under that of" other diseases, chiefly chronic."
I may explain that of the 143 cases included under the head of
"scarlet fever" 14 were registered as diphtheria; and that of the
108 placed under the head of "measles, hooping-cough, and
croup," 28 was due to the first-named disease, 51 to the second,
and 29 to the third.
368 persons died in the first three months of the year, 307 in
the second, 356 in the third, and 409 in the fourth.
Several of the facts above enumerated require comment and
elucidation. The mortality, it will be observed, rose from 1259,
at which it stood during the previous year, to 1440. There was
therefore an increase of 181 deaths; and it is obvious either
that some new morbific agencies were in operation, or that some of
those previously at work had grown in severity. Let us investigate
this question. Now an increase of mortality is manifested
not merely by the final results furnished by the entire parish,