But the population of England being now twice as great as the home-grown corn can feed, a return of those fevers on the great scale is not out of the question in the event of the foreign food-supply being interfered with, or the necessaries of life becoming permanently dearer from any other cause. The following Table of the fever-deaths in Scotland since the beginning of Registration does not distinguish enteric from typhus, relapsing and simple continued during the first ten years of the period; but it is probable, from all that is known non-statistically or by hospital figures only, as to the history of enteric fever in Scotland, that it made the smaller part of the generic total of fever-deaths so long as typhus and relapsing fevers were common. _Scotland--Deaths from the Continued Fevers since the beginning of Registration._ Year 1855 2419 } 1856 2363 } 1857 3087 } 1858 2790 } 1859 2436 } Inclusive of typhus, relapsing, enteric 1860 2344 } and other continued fevers. 1861 2579 } 1862 3021 } 1863 3441 } 1864 4804[402]} Simple Infantile Cerebro-Spinal Typhus Enteric Relapsing continued Remittent 1865 3272 1048 62 839 164 -- 1866 2172 1404 34 249 159 -- 1867 1745 1378 40 105 119 -- 1868 1561 1404 45 100 132 -- 1869 2059 1335 29 121 157 -- 1870 1460 1207 205 151 141 -- 1871 1129 1234 411 108 124 -- 1872 795 1223 115 103 118 -- 1873 628 1495 31 192 117 -- 1874 726 1455 27 104 80 -- 1875 615 1625 17 98 85 -- 1876 471 1448 18 65 88 -- 1877 265 1427 5 164 -- -- 1878 263 1477 2 147 -- -- 1879 210 1013 5 133 -- -- 1880 170 1338 4 155 -- -- 1881 229 1004 0 115 -- -- 1882 180 1204 2 90 -- -- 1883 152 998 1 71 -- 7 1884 138 1050 2 63 -- 9 1885 111 889 1 58 -- 8 1886 80 755 2 62 -- 10 1887 126 835 7 65 -- 4 1888 102 665 6 58 -- 6 1889 69 795 1 45 -- 2 1890 77 777 -- 30 -- 3 1891 107 799 4 23 -- 6 Circumstances of Enteric Fever.