The following summary will present the percentages in round numbers:

The number of deaths returned as having been caused by scarlatina, in 1890, was 16. The number is 35 less than in 1889, and less than in any year since 1867.

Sex. Of the 16 decedents from scarlatina 11 were males and 5 were females; or about 50 females to every 100 males.

Parentage. There were 6 of native parentage, and 10 of foreign; a proportion of about 166 of foreign parentage to every 100 of native.

The following Table will present the statistics of scarlatina for the last thirty-six years, from 1855 to 1890, inclusive, the number and percentage and sex of the decedents from scarlatina, and the number from scarlatina in each division of the State. It also shows, from 1865 to 1890, inclusive, the parentage of the decedents from scarlatina:

TABLE LXXXVIII.

Mortality in the State from Scarlet Fever, 1855 to 1890, inclusive.

CROUP, DIPHTHERIA AND SCARLATINA.-Season and Mortality.

The following Table is continued, to show by comparison the influence of season in regard to the mortality from croup and scarlatina for thirty-five years, and diphtheria for thirty years. The Table will give the average monthly and quarterly percentages of deaths from each cause :

SUICIDE.

The number of deaths by suicide, in Rhode Island, during 1890, was 19, which is 5 less than in the preceding year.

There were 15 male and 4 female decedents from that cause, or a proportion of nearly four males to every one of the females.

Of the 19, twelve were of native parentage and seven of foreign. It is according to the rule of previous years that there was a preponderance of decedents from suicide of native parentage.

The means of self-destruction, according to the returns, were as follows: By arsenic, one male and one female; by coal gas, one male; by cutting the throat, one male and one female; by drowning, two males and one female; by hanging, one male; by morphine, one male; by paris green, one male; by shooting, four males; unspecified, three males and one female.

The proportion of suicides, to all other causes of death in Rhode Island, during 26 years has, in but one quinquennial period, exceeded one-half of one per cent.

Deaths by suicide have been more than 25 per cent. less, during the last ten years, than during the first ten of the twenty-six years, as may be seen in the following Table:

TABLE XC.

Mortality in the State from Suicide, with the Percentage of the Whole Number of Deaths, Sex, Parentage and Locality, for twenty-six years, from 1865 to 1890, inclusive.