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ten years was 775, so that the average death rate
has been reduced during the last ten years by 43.
I now proceed to examine the details of the
causes of death as presented in the four first tables.
It is always convenient to divide the deaths into
Zymotic and Non-Zymotic, as the former are regarded
as diseases more particularly under the
control of sanitary activity. It will however be seen
from the following table of the total deaths from
Zymotic diseases of all forms, that they vary in
amount more than any other form of disease.
Year. Total Cases of Disease.
1855 130
1856 85
1857 93
1858 70
1859 121
1860 80
1861 111
1862 135
1863 126
1864 100
1865 93
In this respect the year 1865 bears favourable
comparison with previous years. The liability of
one form of these diseases to gain ascendancy over
the others, will be seen by the following table, which
gives the entire number of each particular form of
Zymotic disease for the last four years.