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inherited syphitis 9. 153 children died of convulsions,
326 deaths were caused by inflammatory affections
of the lungs, 327 by tubercular diseases, and 124 by
diarrhoea. The deaths from zymotic diseases were
as follows: Hooping cough, 132; measles, 46;
diphtheria, 1; scarlet fever, 86; fever, 38; and
small-pox, 41,
A few remarks may be made in reference to
several of the causes of death which have been just
enumerated.
Deaths from acute inflammatory affections of
the lungs were less fatal by 71 in 1872 than in 1871,
a difference which seems to have been mainly due to
the great mildness of the last three months of 1872.
There was but little difference in the number of
deaths due to diarrhoea in the two years, but what
difference there was is in favour of the year just
passed.
Hooping cough, which destroyed 50 lives in the
year 1871, destroyed no less than 132 in the year
1872. This disease had begun to assume an
epidemic character in the last quarter of 1871, when
it caused 25 deaths, or just half of the entire
number registered in that year. It increased in