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ZYMOTIC MORTALITY.
Included under this heading are the deaths from the “Seven Principal
Zymotic Diseases,0148” viz.:—Small Pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria,
Whooping Cough, Fever (Typhoid, Typhus and Continued) and
Diarrhoea.
The rate based on these deaths is usually taken as a standard for
inferences to be drawn as to the good or bad sanitary administration of
a district, and in 1908 our rate was '95, the smallest recorded, less than
that of rural England, and about half that of the “76 Great Towns.”
This very favourable rate is accounted for by the lessened number of
deaths caused by Scarlatina, Diphtheria, Whooping Cough and Diarrhoea
compared with other years, while those from Fever and Measles,
although more numerous than in 1907, were not above the average.
As all the diseases whose death-rates form the Zymotic are separatelymentioned
later on, further consideration of this rate is unnecessary.
The Zymotic rate in 1901 was 2.82; in 1902,1 81; 1908, 1.97;
1904, 2.89; 1905, 1.68; 1906, 2.54; and 1907, 1.8.