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Of these 815 cases, 343, or less than half, have
been admitted to Hospital.
Small Pox.—Two cases were notified, but one
subsequently proved not to be small pox, so that the
last case occurring in the Parish was in January.
Scarlet Fever.—This disease has prevailed to
a considerable extent, but not nearly so extensively
as in 1893, when the average number of persons
attacked was 8.5 per 1,000; in 1895 it was 4'9 per
1,000, and in 1896 rather more or 5.5.
In my Report for 1891, I drew attention to the
number of children who were susceptible to scarlet
fever, estimating them at 4,000; these would at the
present, if living, all be over five years of age, but
still liable to take the disease. Since then there
have been 11,820 children born, of whom 1,810 have