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smallpox.—Six deaths occurred from this disease, all of them
in Hospital. During the year only 22 cases caine to my knowledge
against 8G in 1882.
Measles,—Fifty-seven deaths were registered from this disease
which caused a greater mortality than in any year since 1877, when
the deaths numbered 71.
Starlet Fever.—Eighty-four deaths were registered therefrom,
74 in the District and 10 in the Hospitals. One-hundred and
eighty-two cases were reported to me against 190 in the preceding
year.
Diphtheria caused 18 deaths, a number considerably above
any one of the last ten years.
WHOOPING Cough contributed 30 deaths, a number considerably
below the average of the last ten years.
Fever caused 14 deaths. Thirty-eight cases came to my
knowledge of which 36 were Enteric and 2 Typhus.
DlARRHCEA.—To this cause 45 deaths were attributed, a
number considerably below the average of the last ten years.
Diseases of a Zymotic Character caused 279 deaths.
Constitutional Diseases as Cancer, Tabes and Phthisis,
caused 188 deaths.
Local Diseases as Cephalitis, Apoplexy, Convulsions, Heart
Disease, Bronchitis and Pneumonia caused 5132 deaths.
Developmental Diseases caused 124 deaths.
To Violence 78 deaths were attributed.