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that the population among which the deaths have
occurred has been increasing rapidly year by year ;
and that hence even had the health of the Parish (so
far as the prevalence of zymotic diseases is concerned)
remained stationary, the deaths from the
several diseases comprised in the Tables must have
shown an annual increase.
An examination of the details of the several
Tables will show that, with the exception of smallpox,
the different zymotic diseases have not been
specially prevalant or fatal, and that small-pox
(though its incidence has been specially heavy) has
still not been so largely fatal as to have any
appreciable effect on the death-rate; and will confirm
the opinion, already derived from the smallness of
the death-rates, that the general health of the Parish
has been, on the whole, exceptionally good.