Zymotic diseases from Registrar-General’s Report (1895), Table 24, Columns 3 to 9.

Total Death-rate from Registrar-General’s Report, 1895, Table 3.

N.B.—Each of the lines showing Death-rates has its own vertical scale showing the rate per million living, in order to allow of the four separate rates being shown on one diagram so that their corresponding rise or fall may be compared.


DIAGRAM IV.

Comparison of Scotland and Ireland as regards their Death-rates from Small-pox and two Zymotics (Measles and Scarlet-fever).

From Tables given in the Roy. Comm. Final Report. (See pages 35, 37, 42, and 44.)

Solid lines. Small-pox (shaded for distinctness).

Dotted lines. Two Zymotics.