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Bronchitis, pneumonia, and other inflammatory
affections of the lungs, caused 710
deaths; diarrhoea and other such disorders
100. Pulmonary inflammations were fatal
mainly in the first and last quarters of the
year; diarrhoea, as a fatal disease, is almost
always a phenomenon of the later summer,
and indeed 65 out of the whole number of
cases were fatal in the third quarter of the
year. Its mortality was considerably under
the average in 1882, and a great deal less
than it had been in 1881.
Tubercular diseases are always largely
fatal, and deaths attributable to them
amounted to 595; nearly a hundred more
than were registered in the previous year.
The so called zymotic disorders are
always of special interest; partly because
they are exceedingly variable in their
prevalence; partly because collectively they
cause, as a general rule, a heavy addition to
the death-rate; and partly because they are
to some extent preventable.