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Among the most important steps taken to arrest the disease
were the following:—
I inspected over 1,900 children at the various schools in the
district, and found, that of this number 61 had never been
vaccinated at all, 372 had evidences of insufficient protection by
only having one or two very faint marks, whilst the remaining
number were efficiently vaccinated. I gave the names and addresses
of the unvaccinated children to the Vaccination Officer, and
requested him to take steps to have them vaccinated immediately.
Further, the Relieving Officers gave me immediate information
of every case of infection that came under their notice, which
enabled me to take such measures to prevent the spread of disease
as I deemed necessary.
In every instance all articles likely to contain or convey
infection were thoroughly disinfected under the superintendence of
your Inspector, as well as the rooms which had been inhabited by
the sick.
The number of deaths registered in Christchurch amounted to
347, in St. Saviour 290, making in all a total of 637.
The number of births registered was 1,009, 475 occurring in
Christchurch and 534 in St. Saviour. The total number of births
registered in 1880 was 1,013, there being only a difference of 4
births in this year.
The births were comprised in the following details:—
Christchurch
Males
243
F emales
232
475
St. Sav-iour
Males
256
Females
278
534
1,009
85 deaths occurred in Christchurch Workhouse; 74 of this
number were deaths of people over 60 years of age, there being 69
between 60 and 80 years, 4 over 80 years, and 1 at the very
advanced age of 105.
The following is a statement of all the deaths which occurred
from various causes during the year:—