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From Heart Diseases (64), Enteric Fever (2), and Puerperal
Fever (1), the number of deaths was the same as in 1904.
Curiously enough, the number of deaths from Influenza (14)
is the same as in 1904 and in 1903.
The most serious increase in the number of deaths from any
one cause is in the case of Cancer, an increase of 16.
The yearly average number of deaths from this cause during
the past 6 years has been 52. The subject is further referred to in
another part of this report.
From Epidemic Enteritis there have been 18 fewer deaths as
compared with the previous year. This is due to some extent to
the fact that climatic conditions did not favour the development of
the disease so much as in the previous year. A good deal of work
has been done in the districts where epidemic diarrhoea is most
common, both in the way of discovering and causing to be remedied
insanitary conditions, and by the distribution of leaflets containing
information as to the proper feeding of infants. The courts, passages,
etc., in the poorer districts have been regularly and frequently
inspected, especially during the hot weather, so that no
offensive conditions should remain long undetected.
Measles and Whooping Cough caused 19 deaths, as compared
with 35 in the previous year. Sixteen of the 19 deaths were those
of children under 5 years of age.
The relative importance of the various diseases, as causes of
death, is shown graphically below:—