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diseases have special propagating and preventive agencies. For
enteric fever sanitation means pure water supply and strict dairy
inspection; for typhus it means the abolition of overcrowding and
the admission of fresh air; for measles it means the closure of
schools; for smallpox, vaccination; for hydrophobia, Pasteurism;
for phthisis, good house accommodation; for relapsing fever a
sufficient supply of good food; for scarlet fever, lengthened and
complete isolation of infected cases, and strict dairy and cattle
inspection - and so on. Of course, most of these preventive means
more or less overlap each other. Isolation is good against enteric
fever and smallpox, and sufficient food is good against typhus, but
all the same, the measures just noted have a special bearing on
the special diseases. And thus it comes that in the rural districts
of the county enteric fever shows a low mortality, and measles
and phthisis a high mortality.
The same facts, relating to the prevalence of phthisis and
zymotics, are set forth, on different basis, in tables XV. and XVI.
So far we have been dealing with the rate of mortality on the
population, the standard taken being the number of deaths per
100,000 persons living. Now I give tables showing the proportion
of total deaths due to the particular diseases already selected.
And again, to avoid decimals, I have followed the Registrar
General's plan of taking as a standard, 10,000 deaths from all
causes.

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COUNTY OF DUNBARTON.
TABLE XV. - Number of deaths from certain diseases to every 10,000 deaths from all specified causes.

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