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fever and is in fact well, may communicate it to half 

 the children with whom he comes in contact, unless 

 he is placed in quarantine for two months, by which 

 time there is reason to think all the active contagious 

 particles will have died, or will have been removed. 



From a return moved for by Mr. W. H. Smith, and 

 printed by order of the House of Commons, we learn 

 that the deaths from zymotic diseases in England and 

 Wales amount to upwards of 1 1 1,000 annually, out of 

 a population of under 22,000,000, the total deaths 

 from all causes being under 500,000. Continued 

 fever destroys upwards of 20,000 lives per annum ; 

 scarlet fever alone averages about 18,000 victims, and 

 sometimes destroys 30,000 persons in a single year. 

 The actual numbers are given in the accompanying 

 table, which has been calculated from the Registrar 

 General's return above referred to. 



Fve years, Average 

 1864 to 1868, for 



inclusive. one year. 



Estimated population 21,210,431 



Totaldeaths 2,438,826 487,765 



Diarrhoea and Cholera 125,828 25,165 



Fever .*.. 100,807 .20,161 



Scarlet fever 93> 2 97 18,659 



Hooping cough 54>77 10,815 



Measles 4 6 >43 9,208 



Small-pox 21,689 4337 



Diphtheria 18,222 35644 



Other zymotic diseases 97> I2 7 J 9j4 2 5 



Total Zymotic diseases 557>O9O 111,418 



Being 22 '84 per cent, of the total deaths. 



