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ANNUAL DEATH RATES per 1000 in PARISHES and DISTRICTS, in Two
Series of Three Years, 1879, 1880, 1881, and 1889, 1890, 1891.

Arranged in Order - Highest to Lowest. *

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Hydrocephalus) caused a large number of deaths in 1891, viz., 49 out
of 345, or 13·9 per cent. of total deaths, or at the rate of 223 persons
to 100,000 persons living at all ages, removed by this class of
disease. Phthisis alone contributed 39 deaths, or 11·3 per cent. of
total deaths, or at the rate of 178 per 100,000, i.e., to put it in
another way, the disease Phthisis was the means of telescoping into
their coffins and their graves 11·3 persons out of every 100 who died
in 1891 from all the specified diseases. (The term 100,000 is taken as
a standard number with which to reckon deaths from certain classes of
disease). That this kind of death is not rare in our County is proved
by the Death Lists for the last 35 years, in which from 10 per cent.
to 17 per cent. of the annual amount of deaths are caused by Tuber-
cular Disease; and while a reduction has been effected in some
Counties, a corresponding diminution has not resulted in ours.
Respiratory Diseases (excluding Phthisis, of course) come next in
order with 43 deaths, or 12·4 per cent. of total deaths, and at the
the lives of large numbers, and cause the deaths of 19 out of the
rate of 196 per 100,000, and so on down the Dead List.
Deaths due to causes unknown or uncertified by a medical attendant
are considerable, and mean that many diseases are permitted to affect
total dead, or at the rate of 86 to 100,000 living, without any skilled
attempt being made to check or alleviate their ravages.
Deaths due to Cancerous or Malignant Diseases have increased in
our Country during the last few years, and in this County produced
death at the rate of 82 per 100,000.
Violence and Accident removed 10 dead, at the rate of 45 per
100,000.
Influenza prevailed extensively in all the country during 1891,
and with us contributed 7 out of 345 deaths, or 31 per 100,000.
Not all the sickness called by the name of Influenza was the veritable
disease, and the death rate from it as an indubitable cause is not in
figures so high as many who give credence to mere popular rumour
would be led to expect. This disease has certainly maimed many
people who did not take proper precautions during the time that it,
in some form or other, dominated their system, while in other cases
it was superadded to complicate and aggravate various diseases of
old age, and thus was accessory to the death of several.
Measles, in many places of a virulent nature, prevailed in epidemic
form all over the Western Highlands and Islands in 1890-91, and
caused 6 deaths in our district between Stoer, Kinlochbervie, and
Durness, or at the rate of 27 per 100,000.
Diarrhœal Diseases produced 40 deaths, 3 of which were in
Embo, at the rate of 18 per 100,000.
Septic Diseases (which include Erysipelas, Puerperal Fever, and the
other Blood Poisons) caused 3 deaths, one of which was Puerperal
Fever in a midwife's practice.
Typhoid, Whooping Cough, and Doubtful Fevers caused one death
each, and the Typhoid case was imported from Ross-shire.

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