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due to such diseases. Small Pox continued in this year, as in the
last, to absorb a considerable share of the attention of your Sanitary
staff. I find that of the total number of deaths from this disease 24
occurred in the District, and 39 in the Small Pox Hospitals. Every
effort was made to procure the removal of persons suffering from
the disease to the Hospital, with what success the above numbers
show. Scarlatina, Whooping Cough, and Diarrhoea were the
principal causes of the mortality in this class, Whooping Cough having
shown a material advance on the number of deaths due to it in
the previous year,
Pulmonary Diseases (other than Phthisis) caused the
deaths of 295 persons, which is equivalent to a death rate of 4.9 per
1,000 of the population. Of a thousand registered deaths 199 were
due to diseases of this class. Pneumonia and Bronchitis contributed
between them no less than 272 deaths.
Tubercular Diseases, including Phthisis, Scrofula, Rickets,
and Tabes were fatal to 166 persons, thus representing a mortality
from these causes equal to a rate of 2.7 per 1,000. Of 1,000 deaths
from all causes, 112 were due to diseases of this class.
Wasting Diseases of Infants, such as Marasmus, Atrophy,
Want of Breast Milk, and Premature Birth, resulted in the deaths
of 131. This number is equivalent to a death rate of 2.1 per 1,000
living, and of 1,000 deaths registered from all causes 88 were due
to diseases of this description.
The Convulsive Diseases of Infants carried off 108, which