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Zymotic Diseases. - From zymotic diseases a total of
94 deaths was registered, of which Carluke and Lesmahagow
contributed 55 - a number considerably in excess of their
proportion according to population. In Dolphinton,
Dunsyre, Lamington, Libberton, Walston, and Wiston and
Roberton no deaths from zymotic diseases were registered.
The total zymotic death-rate for the whole district is
2·540 per 1,000 of the population, while in the various
parishes it ranges from 5·05 in Covington and Thankerton
to nil in the parishes already named.
The zymotic rate is thus made up -
Smallpox, --- 0·000 per 1,000.
Diphtheria, --- 0·243 per 1,000.
Scarlet Fever, --- 0·162 per 1,000.
Typhus, --- 0·000 per 1,000.
Enteric or Typhoid, --- 0·513 per 1,000.
Measles, --- 0·568 per 1,000.
Whooping Cough, --- 0·568 per 1,000.
Diarrhœa, --- 0·486 per 1,000.
[Total] 2·540 per 1,000.

The points of interest in connection with the figures for
zymotic diseases are (a) the total zymotic rate for the whole
district is below the average - which may be put at 3·3 per
1,000 for the whole country - but not more so than we have
a right to expect from the conditions which ought to prevail
in the Upper Ward; (b) the rate of 0·51 for enteric or
typhoid fever is above the average rate, which is 0·32 per
1,000, and is much above the rate for a healthy district.
As the cases of fatal typhoid are confined to Carluke and
Lesmahagow, with the exception of one in Symington, it
follows that the sanitary condition of portions of these
parishes is of an unfavourable character - the occurrence of
typhoid fever being the test par excellence of hygienic condi-
tions. It is on the other hand, extremely satisfactory to
note that no death from typhoid occurred in 17 out of the
20 parishes.

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