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ANALYSIS OF CAUSES OF DEATH.
Zymotic Diseases.—The total number of deaths due to
zymotic diseases was 162, compared with 92 in the previous
year, and the death-rate from these diseases was 0.84 per 1,000,
against 0'57 in 1912.
Enteric Fever.—Eight fatal cases of this disease
occurred, the same number as in 1912, and an average of 4'0
for the ten years, 1903-12.
Measles was certified to be the cause of twenty-five
deaths, a large increase on 1912, when only eight deaths
occurred.
Scarlet Fever was the cause of five deaths.
Whooping Cough.—Twenty-two deaths were caused
by this disease, nine of the victims being under one
year of age.
Diphtheria was the cause of thirty-five deaths, compared
with twenty-six in 1912.
Diarrhoea and Enteritis.—Fifty-one children under the
age of two years died from these diseases, compared with
twenty in the preceding year.