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viz.:— such as typhoid, bilious and low fever. Deducting the
diarrhoea cases, included wrongly in the list of zymotic diseases,
this latter class of deaths would be only 34, of which 13 are
from whooping cough.
Out of the 60 fatal diarrhoea cases in this quarter, 54 occurred
within six weeks; viz., two weeks of July, and four of August,
when the temperature of the air was at the highest.
From the middle of July the daily average temperature was
69° to 71°; or from 7 to 9 degrees of Fahr. above the average
for 50 years. On some days the thermometer stood at 91° to 96°
in the shade, and as high as 168° in the sun.
The ages of the diarrhoea cases were as follows :—
3 under 16 days; 18 under 3 months; 28 from 3 to 12 months;
7 from 1 year and 18 months; and 4 Adults, ages 68, 78, 75, 76.
The deaths from consumption and allied diseases, are numerous
and proportionally as usual, very high, viz.:—74.
33 deaths were from violence, including 4 suicides, 4 scalds
and burns, 3 accidental suffocation, 4 of newly-born infanticides,
other accidents, as through railways, &c.
Although the deaths of young children under 5, amounting
to 298, or G8.8 per cent, of the total deaths, is a shamefully
high proportion, and never ought to be overlooked, it may be
said that the public health during the quarter was upon the
whole very satisfactory.
TABLE II.