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Table No. 15 gives the percentages of causes of death, by classes, excluding deaths from unspecified causes, premature and still births, from the year 1884 to 1892, inclusive. This table presents substantially the same information as table No. 14, but in the form of percentages. The relative fatality of each class of diseases is vividly shown. The increase of the percentage of deaths from local diseases during the period included in the table as well as the decrease of developmental diseases is especially marked.

COUNTIES.

Percentages.

TABLE No. 16.

Causes of Death, by Classes and Counties, 1892.

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Percentages.

Unspecified.

Number.

Percentages.

Total.

CAUSES OF DEATH.

155

Table No. 16 gives the causes of death, by classes and counties, for 1892, with the percentages of each to the total number of deaths, and including deaths from unspecified causes, premature and still births, which accounts for the differences in the percentages in tables 15 and 16; the former gives the percentage of each class to the total number of specified causes, excluding premature and still births, while the latter gives the percentage of each class to the total number of all classes.

The highest percentage in the zymotic class is in Coös county, 21.85; Belknap, 21.82; Sullivan, 18.06; Hillsborough and Strafford, each 17.59; Cheshire, 16.61; Merrimack, 15.51; Rockingham and Grafton, each 14.81; Carroll, 11.11. The percentage of deaths in this class for the entire state is 16.83 to the total mortality, as against 17.79 for 1891.

In the constitutional class the variation of percentages is not so marked, the highest being 18.22 in Rockingham county, followed by 16.34 in Carroll, 15.16 in Strafford, 15.04 in Merrimack, 14.14 in Cheshire, 14.01 in Coös, 13.86 in Belknap, 13.48 in Hillsborough, 12.95 in Grafton, and 12.57 in Sullivan. The percentage for the whole state is 14.61, and for the previous year 17.76.

In the class of local diseases, the rates are as follows: Sullivan, 54.97; Carroll, 52.63; Grafton, 49.53; Cheshire, 46.38; Merrimack, 45.44; Belknap, 43.86: Rockingham, 43.49; Strafford, 43.40; Hillsborough, 39.67; Coös, 38.00. Average for the state in this class, 44.20. In the developmental class the average rate is 13.23, the highest being 14.47 in Merrimack county, and the lowest 8.77 in Carroll county. There were 283 deaths from violent causes, and 606 from unspecified causes.

Table No. 17 shows the mortality from prominent zymotic causes. Cholera infantum heads this list, but it will be noticed that there were 120 deaths less from this cause in 1892, than in the preceding year. Croup, with 45 deaths, shows a lower mortality than for any of the years

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included in the table. Diphtheria, with 1892, is the lowest recorded since 1885.

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Typhoid fever was responsible for 109 deaths, which is considerably less than ever before recorded in New Hampshire in a single year.

Deaths from whooping cough, measles, and scarlet-fever, show an increase over the preceding year.

The total number of deaths from zymotic diseases, 942, is the lowest figure reached since 1885.

TABLE No. 17.

Mortality from Prominent Zymotic Diseases from 1884 to 1892, inclusive.

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* Including fever, bilious, intermittent, malarial, and typho-malarial fevers.

TABLE No. 18.

Mortality from Principal Constitutional Diseases from 1884 to 1892, inclusive.

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The mortality from the chief constitutional diseases from 1884 to 1892, inclusive, is shown in table No. 18.

The total number of deaths recorded in this class for the year 1892 is 1,165, of which pulmonary tuberculosis is responsible for 736.

The uniformity of the number of deaths from cancer for the past nine years, the period covered by the table, is striking.

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