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Public Institutions situated beyond the limits of the District,
amounted to 1,490. This is a number slightly higher than the
average of the ten years 1875-84. The Rate of Mortality was 25.4
per 1,000 the Metropolitan rate having been 19.7 per 1,000 population
and the rate for the Eastern District 22.1 per 1,000.
The Deaths of children under one constituted 23 per cent.,
and those of children under 5 year 42 per cent. of the total deaths.
The total number of Deaths in Public Institutions amounted to
376, a number far in excess of any previously reported by me.
This arises from my having availed myself of increased facilities for
obtaining exact returns of such deaths, such facilities having only
recently been available.
Diseases of a Zymotic Character caused the deaths of 280
persons; and included -'2 from Smallpox, of which number 3 were
returned as vaccinated, 14 as unvaccinated, and in 5 cases no state-
ment was made, 87 from Measles, 32 from Scarlet Fever, 49 from
Whooping Cough, 20 from Diphtheria, 11 from Typhoid Fever, 42
from Diarrhœa, and 8 from Erysipelas. The rate of Mortality from
the seven principal diseases of this class was 4.5 par 1000 of
population.
Constitutional Diseases caused the deaths of 288 persons;
and included 33 from Cancer, 47 from Mesenterica, 42 from
Tubercular Meningitis, 141 from Phthisis. The rate of Mortality
in this class was 4.9 per 1,000 population.