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With respect to the causes of death, the principal
facts are the following—tubercular diseases, including
phthisis, tabes-mesenterica, scrofula, and hydrocephalus,
have been less fatal than usual; the same
has been the case with alvine disorders, continued
fever, small-pox, measles, whooping-cough, and croup,
but infantile convulsions, scarlet-fever, and inflammatory
affections of the lungs have been more than
usually fatal—the most notable increase being from
scarlet-fever, which has risen from an average of 90
in the year to 127. The relative proportion 0†
deaths from each of these causes has been as
follows:—