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1862.
1863.
1864.
Diarrhoea,
13
20
15
Hooping Cough
33
22
29
Measles
9
24
29
Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria
66
31
13
Small Pox
1
21
, ,
Typhus and Typhoid
13
8
14
135
126
98
This table is interesting as shewing that the
mortality of the last year has not been owing to the
increase of these diseases which are regarded as
most preventible by sanitary measures.
The following gives the total mortality from all the
foregoing Zymotic diseases for the last ten years:—
Year.
Total Cases of Diseases.
1855
130
1856
85*
1857
93*
1858
70*
1859
121
1860
80*
1861
111
1862
135
1863
126
1864
98
Thus it will be seen that there are but four
years 1856,-57,-58,-60, with fewer deaths from
Zymotic diseases than in 1864. It is clearly then not
in the group of Zymotic diseases that we have to look
for the cause of the increased mortality of 1864.