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patients not unfrequently exhibit before death from any
inflammatory or febrile disease, without heed as to
whether or not the pathognomonic lesion of typhoid
fever is present.
The deaths from diarrhoea, producible by so many
causes were, as might be expected, most numerous
during the autumn months, and of the total number
(68), 57 occurred during the first year of life. Only
twelve deaths frem diarrhoea were recorded in St. John's
during the year.
To diseases of the respiratory organs 349 lives
succumbed. The low temperature which prevailed
during some weeks swelled the mortality from bronchitis
and pneumonia.
The deaths were most numerous during the first
quarter of the year, being 145, and of the total number,
130 were those of children under 5 years of age.
15 occurred between 5 years and 25
34 „ „ 25 „ „ 45
69 „ „ 45 „ „ 65
94 „ „ 65 „ „ 85
7 „ ,, 85 „ „ upwards.
Total 349
It may not be amiss to compare the mortality from
the same causes in the two districts into which the
parish is divided, and to see the advantages,—that is,
the less liability to disease, and the greater probability
of recovery,—which the well-to-do classes and their
children have over their poorer neighbours. This is