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Continued and Typhus Fever.
No cases of continued fever were notified during the year.
We have had no case of typhus fever since 1903, when we had
one case, and in 1901 we had eight cases.

Under this heading are included deaths registered as due to
epidemic diarrhoea, epidemic enteritis, infective enteritis, zymotic
enteritis, summer diarrhoea, dysentery and dysenteric diarrhœa,
choleraic diarrhoea, cholera (other than Asiatic or epidemic) and
cholera nostras.
Under the heading of "Enteritis" are included deaths registered
as due to enteritis, muco-enteritis, gastro-enteritis, gastric catarrh, and
gastro-intestinal catarrh. Gastritis is a separate disease.
These diseases were the cause of 116 deaths during 1915 compared
with 96 for 1914. Of this number 101 were of children under
five years of age, 94 of these being under two years of age.
The death rate was 1.05 per 1,000 at all ages, and 0.85 for infants
under two years of age.
The older statistics do not give an accurate comparison with
1911-1915, because the heading of Diarrhoea did not, before these dates,
include the names mentioned above, but simply cases registered as
epidemic or summer diarrhœa, or epidemic, zymotic or infective enteritis.
It is usual now to consider the infantile mortality in this case as
being for all children under two years of age.
The deaths from this disease occurred among the inhabitants of the
various Wards as follows :—
East 59. North 22. North-West 15.
South 3. South-East 11. South-West 6.