Deaths reported 2,640 : under five years of age 1,235 ; principal infectious diseases (smallpox, measles, diphtheria and croup, whooping-cough, erysipelas, fevers, and diarrhoea] diseases) 678, diarrhoea! diseases 380, consumption 336, lung diseases 175, diphtheria and croup 105, scarlet fever 50, measles 43, malarial fevers 30, typhoid fever 22, whooping-cough 19, cerebro-spinal meningitis 17, erysipelas six, puerperal fever five, smallpox one.