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from each of the diseases specified has been greatly
below the average—phthisis, for example, has declined
from 326 in the year to 209 ; tabes and scrofula
from 153 to 58; hydrocephalus from 46 to 33;
convulsions and teething from 140 to 96; inflammatory
affections of the lungs from 405 to 324;
alvine disorders from 93 to 61; continued fevers
from 98 to 33; scarlet fever from 94 to 61; measles
from 69 to 19; and whooping cough, croup, and
diphtheria from 130 to 58: but the deaths from
small-pox have advanced from an annual average of
16 to 88. Altogether, however, the aggregate proportion
of deaths from zymotic diseases has not been
excessive, for it stands as 334 in the year, against
an annual average of 515.
Small-pox.
The chief feature in the table of causes of death
is the large mortality from small-pox—a mortality
which has been only once exceeded during the whole
period of your sanitary labours from the year 1848,
as will be seen from the following table:—