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Hooping
Cough.
Measels.
Diphtheria.
Scarlet
Fever.
Fever.
Small Pox.
1871.
1st Quarter
11
3
4
24
11
23
2nd „
10
10
1
9
6
59
3rd „
4
9
2
0
11
39
4th „
25
7
2
21
12
32
1872.
1st Quarter
64
11
0
67
17
30
2nd „
33
13
0
11
8
3
3rd „
24
7
1
4
7
4
4th „
11
15
0
4
6
4
1873.
1st Quarter
14
10
2
3
5
2
2nd „
11
15
1
8
10
0
3rd „
17
7
2
4
10
0
4th „
18
17
2
2
13
0
1871—Total
50
29
9
60
40
153
1872- „
132
46
1
86
38
41
1873- „
60
49
7
17
38
2
The influence of season in the causation of
death is generally well marked. The first, or winter
quarter of the year is generally attended with the
highest mortality, on account of the influence which
the inclemency of the weather has in causing in young
children and elderly persons inflammatory affections
of the lungs, and in aggravating the dangers of some
other disorders. The last, or autumnal quarter is also
usually characterized, for similar reasons, by a high
mortuary rate. The summer quarter generally has
its mortality raised by the fatality of diarrhoea at that