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The percentage of deaths to the total number of cases notified was
12.9.
The annual mortality per 1,000 living was 0.03.

Of the 54 cases notified as many as 51 were removed to hospital
of which 7 died, a mortality of 13.7 per cent.
In the 3 cases treated at home none died.
The percentage of cases removed to hospital to the total number
notified was 94.4.
The Wards most affected were St. Michael, All Saints' and St.
Saviour, in the order named.
DIARRHÆA.
A further diminution in the number of deaths from Diarrhœa has to
be recorded, The lowness of the temperature during July and August
and the general coldness of the summer for the last four years have been
favourable to a low diarrhœa rate, and, in consequence, to a low infant
death-rate. Much, however, of this reduced rate can be reasonably
attributed to the improved habits of the less wealthy part of the community
and the greater care bestowed upon infants. Year by year the
sanitary condition of the home in poor neighbourhoods is improved, and
mothers are encouraged, where possible, to breast feed and attend more
carefully to their infants.