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Asylums there were, males, 21; females, 18. In the
former there were 13 under five years of age.
Infant Deaths.—The deaths under one year
of age have been 460, this amount is largely owing
to a severe outbreak of measles in the spring and to
diarrhoea in the summer, the two diseases causing
101 deaths. Of children from one to five years of
age there were 240 deaths. Measles and whooping
cough causing 108. The three diseases, measles,
whooping cough and diarrhoea caused together 233
deaths of children under five years of age. Neither
of these diseases are required to be notified.
Deaths of Illegitimate Children.—There were
46 of these deaths. Inquests were held in two
cases, 39 were certified, and five were not and there
was no inquest.
The causes of death were returned as bronchitis,
3; convulsions, 5; debility, 15; diarrhoea, 11;
measles, 1; newly born, 1; overlaying, 1; pneumonia,
4; premature birth, 2; quinsy, 1; teething
1; whooping cough, 1; total, 46. Of those not
certified three were from convulsions and two
debility.
The verdicts in the inquests were, overlaying,
1; newly born, no evidence to show cause, 1.