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Altogether the annual mortality is above the average, and as is usually the case,
the chief sufferers are children under two years of age; up to this period of life two
hundred and seven deaths were registered, and one hundred and twenty-nine of these
cases were attributed to some of the more important diseases of the zymotic class ; this
kind of disease undergoes great fluctuation, and the prevailing epidemics have been
measles and whooping cough.
Fever.—Six fatal cases were registered: four typhoid and two typhus. The
annual average number for ten years being nearly ten.
Small Pox contributed seven deaths and the epidemic appears to have nearly
ceased. Although severe, the number of deaths does not exceed one-third of that
which occurred in the previous severe visitation.
Scarlatina.—Seven deaths were registered from this cause. Twenty-six being the
annual average number for ten years.
Measles.—This disease has prevailed as an epidemic and destroyed thirty-one
lives. The annual average number for ten years being thirteen.
Whooping Cough has been more destructive to life than any other epidemic
disease and caused fifty-nine deaths. The annual average number being about twentysix.
Diarrhoea has been less fatal than usual—seventeen deaths were registered.
Diphtheria was fatal in two cases.
The following table will show the number of deaths which have occurred and the
fluctuation observed, in some of the more important zymotic diseases during the last ten
years.
Diseases
1860
1870
1871
1872
1873
1874
1875
1870
1877
1878
Total
Fever
15
13
9
12
4
9
13
4
8
6
93
Small Pox
3
5
23
31
3
0
1
0
12
7
85
Scarlatina
10
124
21
5
13
2
15
58
12
7
267
Measles
19
7
9
12
4
22
6
14
13
31
137
Whooping Cough
29
22
15
13
21
20
26
33
20
59
258
Diarrhoea
29
25
22
22
33
27
30
24
26
17
255
Diphtheria
1
• • •
2
3
1
...
18
10
1
2
38
Varicella
...
...
• • •
1
...
...
...
...
...
1
106
196
101
99
79
80
109
143
92
129
1134
Births.—One thousand three hundred and forty four births were registered, and
one thousand two hundred and sixty-seven in the previous year, the gain will consequently
be seventy-seven, which may be considered a fair increase, estimated by the
increasing population of the parish, and as six hundred and ninety-four deaths were
registered, the excess of births over deaths amounts to six hundred and fifty.