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of "Croup," they amounted to 77, or 50 more than in
1877; under that of "Diarrhoea," they amounted to
176, or 82 more than in 1877; under that of "Inflammatory
Affections of the Lungs," to 577, or 131 more
than in 1877; and under that of "Tubercular Diseases,"
to 424, or 46 more than in the previous year. So that
of deaths from diseases which are in no degree infectious,
which depend largely on climatic causes, some of which,
owing to their domestic circumstances, are specially
fatal among the poor, and which (perhaps excepting
tubercular diseases) are all specially fatal to young
children; there was, compared with the year immediately
preceding, a collective increase of no less than 452.
Amongst the Zymotic Diseases also there was a general
increase, which will be best appreciated by reference
to Tables III. and IV. But the increase was small
excepting in the case of Hooping Cough, which caused
no less than 206 deaths, or 145 more than in 1877.
The only one of them in which a diminution in the
number of deaths was observed was Small Pox, the
mortality of which sunk from 117 to 87. Measles
caused 88 deaths, Diphtheria 29, Scarlet Fever 59,
and Fever 59.
I may refer to Tables III. and IV., as shewing
the fluctuations of the several zymotic diseases—the