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deaths per thousand of the population which are due to the
seven common epidemic diseases:—
(1) Small-Pox
(2) Measles.
(3) Scarlet Fever.
(4) Diphtheria.
(5) Whooping Cough.
(6) Fever, including Typhus, Typhoid, and Illdefined
Fevers.
(7) Diarrhœa.
These seven epidemic diseases may be divided into notifiable
and non-notifiable; and of the former, 7 were due to
Diphtheria, and 3 to Scarlet Fever; and of the latter, 12 were
due to Whooping Cough, 9 to Diarrhœa, and 10 to Measles,
making an aggregate of 41 deaths as against 30 last year, or
equal to a Zymotic death-rate of .72, and .55 last year per
thousand of the population.
In addition to the deaths from Zymotic diseases, the
principal causes of death were as follows:—
Pneumonia 37
Bronchitis 30
Cancer 39
Phthisis 48
Other forms of Tuberculosis 3
Heart Disease 54
Premature Births 13
For the purpose of comparsion the following Table is given,
in advance, by the courtesy of Dr. Stevenson, M.D., of Somerset
House, from the returns of the Registrar General:—