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Annual Report of the Medical Officer of health—1878—9.
The number of males was 715, and that of females 709. The Deaths were 205 above
tho average of the last ten years.
The smallest number of Deaths (14) in one week occurred in the 37th week, and the
highest (43) in the 29th week of 1878.
TABLE No. 2.
1877—8, 1878-9.
BIRTHS.
DEATHS.
BIRTHS.
DEATHS.
Quarter ending June
523
328
571
336
Quarter ending September
556
264
506
382
Quarter ending December
537.
301
564
326
Quarter ending March'
567
390
612
386
Table No. 2, shows that the greatest number of deaths, occurred in the quarter
ending March; this was also the case in the corresponding quarter of 1877 and 78.
TABLE No. 3.
1874—5
1875—6
1876—7
1877—8
1878—9
First Quarter
Second Quarter
Third Quarter
Fourth Quarter
First Quarter
Second Quarter
Third Quarter
Fourth Quarter
First Quarter
Second Quarter
Third Quarter
Fourth Quarter
First Quarter
Second Quarter
j Third Quarter
Fourth Quarter
First Quarter
Second Quarter
Third Quarter
Fourth Quarter
Small-pox
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
9
17
11
1
1
3
6
5
...
...
Measles
7
4
3
13
21
15
10
2
4
2
16
10
29
4
7
8
5
11
4
8
Scarlatina
8
16
15
12
12
27
24
15
7
16
7
6
5
2
4
7
13
5
21
14
Diphtheria
••
1
1
2
5
2
2
1
3
3
...
1
1
1
...
1
2
4
3
4
WhoopingCough
16
7
10
21
35
16
10
27
12
10
6
11
19
15
10
51
42
36
16
7
Diarrhœa
10
45
5
12
7
48
11
2
8
49
4
2
9
40
2
3
9
88
4
1
Typhus
1
7
5
5
3
6
5
1
5
1
4
3
2
5
5
2
6
4
7
5