Deaths reported 2,708: under five years of age 1,309; principal infectious diseases (small-pox, measles, diphtheria and croup, diarrhoeal diseases,whooping-cough, erysipelas aud fevers) 980, consumption 263, acute lung diseases 124, diarrhoeal diseases 744, diphtheria and croup 79, whooping-cough 33, typhoid fever 29, measles 24, scarlet fever 18, puerperal fever 15, cerebro-spinal meningitis 12, malarial fever 11, erysipelas eight, small-pox (Philadelphia) seven. From typhoid fever,