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is always a source of satisfaction to find the loss of life diminishing in this class of
diseases, moreover it imports hope to the sanitary labourer, that in this field of work.
he is not using his efforts in Tain, and that by causing the removal ot nuisances,
improving the dwellings of the people, using disinfection judiciously and as effectively
as far as he has means at command, something has been done perhaps as much as is
practiccablc, to lessen this form of disease and preserve human lite.
The table be1ow will represent the number of deaths which have been produced
by some of the most destructive of epidemic diseases, during the last seven years, the
total number is seven hundred and twenty-eight, and eighty only have occurred
this year, viz :—
Fever. Seven cases of typhoid, one of typhus, and one of continued fever
were registered.
Small-Pox. Not a single death from this cause has been registered. I believe
this circumstance to he unparallelled. and strikingly illustrates how much may be
done in preventing this disease by a vigilant attention to vaccination.
Scarlatina. Another unusual circumstance is the fact that only two fatal cases
of Scarlatina have occurred.
Measles. This disease has been more fatal than usual, twenty-two cases having
been registered.
Whooping Ceugh. Twenty fatal eases occurred which are about the average
number.
Diarrhoea was rather more fatal than usual, twenty-seven deaths having been
registered.
Dipthcria. Not a fatal case occurred.

Births. There arc indications that the population of this Parish will increase
at a more rapid rate than hitherto, the registration of births during the last three