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THE HEALTH OF HOBART. 



PAST AND PRESENT HEALTH OF HOBART 

 COMPARED. 



The following table contrasts the proportions of deaths from 

 preventible causes under the great classes of Disease for the 

 years 1894-5 with the average proportion I'rom corresponding 

 causes in the preceding ten years, and also with the abnormal 

 epidemic year 1887. 



Deaths per 100,000 persons living. 



The rate of 12*81 per 1000 persons livinoj is a remarkably 

 low death-rate for any city in respect of all preventible causes 

 of death. It is lower than the average of the preceding ten 

 years by 33 per cent., and lower than that of the epidemic 

 year by 33 per cent. 



Confining our attention to Zymotic diseases alone, which 

 include nearly all the principal infectious and contagious 

 diseases, and therefore coming well within the scope of 

 sanitary concerns, we find that the death-rate — 1 '70 per 1000 — 

 from ail such forms of disease during years 1894-5 was 37 

 per cent, below the average of the preceding ten years, and as 

 much as 59 per cent, below the epidemic year 1887. 



There can be no doubt, therefore, that Hobart has been in a 

 most healthy condition during the last two or three years, and 

 compares most favourably with any former period in hei' 

 historv. 



