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As this is the last report which I shall have the honour to
present to you as a Vestry, I desired to lay before you some
figures, comparing the health of the Parish during the earliest
years of your corporate existence with the latest. Unfortunately
no statistics have been preserved prior to 1868, and I have,
therefore, instituted a comparison between the five years 1868-72,
and the five years 1895-99.
COMPARISON OF DEATH-RATES.
1868-72.
1895-99.
Mean.
Max.
Min.
Mean
Max.
Min.
Smallpox
0.14
0.56
0.01
0.01
0.00
-
Measles
0.34
0.52
0.24
0.34
0.82
0.01
Scarlet Fever
0.81
1.53
0.21
0.11
0.18
0.06
Whooping Cough
0.63
0.79
0.54
0.31
0.38
0.16
Diphtheria
0.19
0.23
0.16
0.44
0.54
0.22
"Fever"
0.41
0.52
0.28
0.10
0.13
0.06
Diarrhœa
1.04
1.40
0.71
0.74
0.85
0.53
Zymotic Death-Rate
3.56
4.50
2.61
2.04
2.58
1.57
Puerperal Fever
0.05
0.10
0.01
0.03
0.06
0.01
Diseases of Parturition
0.10
0.17
0.04
0.06
0.10
0.02
Other Septic Diseases
0.20
0.34
0.13
0.11
0.14
0.10
"Cancer"
0.44
0.55
0.30
0.95
1.18
0.83
Phthisis
1.94
2.16
1.75
1.19
1.35
1.04
Other Tubercular Dis.
1.27
1.55
0.95
0.54
0.59
0.42
Dis.of Respiratory System
3.34
3.78
2.96
2.91
3.64
2.47
Ill-Defined Causes
0.77
0.92
0.55
0.45
0.52
0.35