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in tables I and II, may be included:—acute inflammatory
affections of the respiratory organs, to which were attributed
308 deaths, comprising 141 among children under 5 years of
age; tubercular diseases, which caused 294 deaths, of which 223
were due to phthisis; hydrocephalus and convulsions of infancy,
which caused 176 deaths; premature birth and conditions related
to this, which (as before pointed out) accounted for 166 deaths ;
violence, poison or accident, which caused 45 deaths; and
lastly, the various so-called "zymotic' diseases. 11 women died
in child-birth, 10 persons of erysipelas, 7 children of inherited
syphilis, and 4 persons of delirium tremens.
In regard to "zymotic" diseases it is necessary to go a little
more into detail.
Diphtheria caused 11 deaths, small-pox 35, measles 38, fever
53, scarlet fever 59, hooping cough 72, diarrhoea and dysentery
76 and cholera 44.