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FORTNIGHTLY REPORTS
OF
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
January 21 st, 1895.
During the fortnight that ended on the 12th day
of January, 158 births and 60 deaths were registered
in the parish. These numbers indicate an annual
birth rate of 48.5, and an annual rate of mortality of
18.4 per thousand of the estimated population. The
corresponding death rate in Loudon was 18.3.
In the class of zymotic disease only 1 death was
recorded. It was from scarlet fever.
Diseases of the tubercular order caused 11 deaths,
of which 8 were referred to phthisis.
From diseases of the respiratory organs there were
18 deaths, viz. : 12 from bronchitis and 6 from
pneumonia.