Acute Lung Diseases, - Pneumonia, Bronchitis, Asthma,

Pleurisy.

The number of deaths reported from acute lung diseases was 2,261; the weekly average being 43.

The average weekly number of deaths reported for each month was as follows:

The months having the least number of reported deaths were July, August and September; those having the greatest number were December and March.

The ratio per thousand deaths from these diseases was 102.37; for the previous year as reported it was 124.9.

The ratio per thousand of the reporting population (estimated) was but 1.91, which was considerably less than that of 1885 (2.31), and the same as that of 1884.

Typhoid Fever.

The number of reported deaths from typhoid fever was 407, and the weekly average 7.7.

The average weekly number reported in each month was. as follows:

The months having the least number of deaths were May and June; those having the greatest number were September and October.

Nearly three-fourths of the reported deaths occurred in the last half of the year.

The ratio per thousand deaths from all causes was 18.4, which was somewhat greater than that of 1885, but less than that of 1884 and 1883. The average annual mortality from