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The Zymotic Diseases, &c.
The Zymotic diseases account for 91 deaths this quarter, of
which 16 were from Small Pox; 16, Scarlet Fever; 26, Whooping
Cough; 13, Measles; 9 Fever cases; 9 from Diarrhœa.
The deaths of young children under 5 years of age are
very high this quarter, 204 out of 542 deaths—representing
37.6 per cent. of the total mortality. That is a very large
item, and above the usual average. It appears from Table IV.,
that chest diseases were very fatal; measles, whooping cough,
bronchitis and pneumonia carried off 81 of these young children
during the last three winter months.
The tubercular class of diseases, including the wasting
diseases, consumption, and scrofulous disease of the brain, called
menengitis, carries off about the same number (84), but at a later
period of life. The mortality is capable of reduction in these
three groups of disease—the infantile deaths, zymotic diseases,
and the wasting or tubercular maladies—by future improved
social habits and domestic sanitary arrangements. Want of
fresh air from over-crowding is the greatest desideratum.

*These Cases stand on the Register thus:—Febricula with Epelipsy; Enteric Fever;
Gastric Fever; Low Fever and Cont. Fever, Bronchitis; Fever with Cancer; Typhoid with
Bronchitis.