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NOTES.
(a) In this Table all deaths of "Residents" occurring in public institutions, whether
within or without the district, are included with the other deaths in
the columns for the several age groups (columns 2-8). They are also, in
columns 9-15, included among the deaths in their respective
Localities" according to the previous addresses of the deceased as given
Registrars. Deaths of "Non-residents" occurring in public institutions in
the district are in like manner excluded from columns 2-8 and 9-15 of
this Table.
(b) See notes on Table I. as to the meaning of "Residents" and "Non-residents,"
and as to the "Public Institutions" taken into account for the
purposes of these Tables. The "Localities'' are the same as those in
Tables II. and III.
(c) All deaths occurring in public institutions situated within the district, whether
of "Residents" or of "Non-residents," are, in addition to being dealt
with as in note (a), entered in the last column of this Table. The
total number in this column should equal the figures for the year in
column 9, Table I.
(d) The total deaths in the several "Localities" in columns 9-15 of this Table
should equal those for the year in the same localities in Table II.,
sub-columns c. The total deaths at all ages in column 2 of this Table
should equal the gross total of columns 9-15, and the figures for the year in
column 12 of Table I.
(e) Under the heading of "Diarrhœa" are included deaths certified as from
diarrhœa, alone or in combination with some other cause of ill-defined
nature; and also deaths certified as from
Epidemic enteritis;
Zymotic enteritis;
Epidemic diarrhoea. Summer diarrhœa;
Dysentery and dysenteric diarrhœa;
Choleraic diarrhœa, cholera, cholera nostras
(in the absence of Asiatic cholera).
Under the heading of "Enteritis" are included those certified as from
Gastro-enteritis, Muco-enteritis and Gastric catarrh, unless from
information obtained by enquiry from the certifying practitioner or
otherwise the Medical Officer of Health should have reason for including
such deaths, especially those of infants, under the specific term
"Diarrhœa." Deaths from diarrhoea secondary to some other welldefined
disease are included under the latter.
Under the headings of "Cancer" and "Puerperal fever" are included
all registered deaths from causes comprised within these general terms.
In recording the facts under the various headings of Tables I., II., III. and
IV., attention has been given to the notes on the Tables.
J. D. WINDLE,
Medical Officer of Health.
Date-January, 1905.