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and on account of the absence of the lesions characteristic
of Enteric Fever, as shown by the post-mortem examination.
I have taken all the necessary precautions, and no
further cases have occurred.
Enteric (Typhoid) Fever : 11 deaths of Parishioners
were recorded, being 2 above the annual average. Five
Non-Parishioners died of this disease in the Parish.
Simple continued Fever : No death from this disease
was registered.
Diarrhoea : This disease caused 27 deaths of Parishioners
as against 30 in 1899, and an annual average of 25. It
also caused 14 deaths of Non-Parishioners in the Parish.
The mean temperature of the first quarter was slightly,
that of the second nearly half a degree, that of the third
two degrees, and that of the fourth nearly four degrees
above the average of 129 years. The mean temperature of
the year was 50 4° F., or r6° F. above the average of 129
years, and 1"0° above the average of the last 59 years.
No death from English Cholera was registered.
Influenza : 38 deaths of Parishioners were recorded from
this disease as against 39 in 1899. Six Non-Parishioners
died from it in the Parish.