CROUP, DIPHTHERIA AND SCARLATINA.

Season and Mortality.

The following Table will show the influence of season in regard to the mortality from croup and scarlatina for thirty-five years, and diphtheria for thirty years; and in which these diseases may be compared. The Table will give the average monthly and quarterly percentages of deaths from each cause:

TABLE LXXXVIII.

tality in the State from Suicide, with the Percentage of the Whole
Number of Deaths, Sex, Parentage and Locality for
twenty-four years, from 1865 to 1888, inclusive.

The following Table shows the percentages comparatively of several prominent causes of death, in the aggregate of total mortality from specified causes in Rhode Island, during a period of eleven years, from 1877 to 1887, inclusive:

TABLE LXXXIX.

YEARS.

CAUSES OF DEATH.

1887.

1886. 1885. 1884. 1883. 1882. 1881. 1880. 1879. 1878. 1877.

Consumption......

11.19 14.12 14.45 14.34 15.01 15.33 15.12 14.02 15.09 15.98 15.52

2.64 3.14 2.52 2.43 1.79 1.69 2.02 1.88 1.89 1.57

4.69 4.95 5.68 5.22 5.89 5.29 5.95 5.22 5.25 5.00

7.70 8.18 8.65 7.14 7.84 7.16 7.01 7.90 7.37 7.49

5.31