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Table V. shows three interesting facts—1. that
the deaths from zymotic diseases have not increased
with the additional increase of population
year after year. 2. The same is also observed
with respect to deaths from tubercular diseases;
and 3. a less proportion of deaths in children,
under 5 year3. Although as shown in the same
Table, there has been an annual average addition
of 2100 persons to the population, all these forms
of death stand at the same numbers, or are actually
less than they were five years ago.
For example—
374 in 1868 against 334 in 1872 Zymotic deaths.
300 in 1868 „ 303 in 1872 Tubercular diseases.
793 in 1868 „ 724 in 1872 Deaths under 5 yrs.
and in young persons between the ages of 5 and 20
the same favorable result is shown:—
129 in 1868 .. to 116 in 1872.
This points to some causes favorably affecting the
population at early ages, and may fairly be attributed
to sanitary and social improvements, brought
about by systematic sanitary inspection of houses,
telling upon the rising generation, if not keeping
disease at bay, rendering less dangerous and fatal
the diseases which kill at those ages. In 1868
the deaths were at the rate of nearly 20 per 1000
of the population, or one in every 52 people; in
1872, they are at 18½ per 1000, or one in every 54.
If the death rate had been the same as in 1868,
150 more persons would have died in the Parish.