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One hundred and thirty deaths occurred from the Wasting
Diseases of Infants—two of every 1,000 of the population died of
them, and of every 1,000 deaths registered 83 were due to such
diseases.
The Convulsive Diseases of Infants caused 118 deaths—they
were fatal to 1.9 per 1,000 of the population, and 76 of every 1,000
deaths registered were due to them.
Having thus glanced at certain classes of disease, I now
proceed to examine the general Mortality of the District, and to
analyse more closely those causes of death which I have hitherto
considered only in groups.
Zymotic Diseases caused the deaths of 272 persons, of which
number 213 were below the age of 5 years. Only one death was
registered in the District from Small Pox; the death of a resident
in the District occurred in one of the Small Pox Hospitals, and
these two are the only deaths from this disease of which I have any
record. The average annual number of deaths from Small Pox in
your District for the last ten years was 35 ; but you must not
suppose that that number, or anything like it, occurred in each year.
In the year 1871, 110 deaths were registered; in 1872, 8 ; in 1873,
3; in 1874 and 1875 none; in 1876, 13 ; in 1877, 89 ; and in
1878, 63. From these figures you will perceive that the mortality
from Small Pox in your District was lower than it had been since
1875. The recently published experience of the Medical Officers