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mortality of 23.3 per cent, on the notifications. The deaths in
Hospital numbered 66. On the estimated population at all ages the
mortality was 1.08 against 1.00 last year; but of the total deaths
100 were amongst young children aged less than five years. This
was 5.49 per 1,000 on the estimated population of young children.
Of the total notifications, 186 came from the North District, 155
from the South, and 215 from the East.
The removals numbered 164; 141 of these were admitted into
the Asylums Board Hospitals, but a few cases (mostly membranous
Croup and necessitating operation) were treated in General Hospitals.
The deaths amongst the Hospital cases, which include the
majority of the serious ones, numbered 66.
The Inspectors report that 310 of the houses where these patients
resided were found upon examination to be in a fairly satisfactory
condition, but 14 had no water supply to the closets; in 25 the
internal drainage arrangements were faulty, and in 63 the drains
outside the houses were in bad order; in 127, various minor insanitary
defects were discovered; 48 cases occurred amongst
families occupying one room only.
WHOOPING COUGH.
(Decennial average 113-4).
Whooping Cough caused 70 deaths, all except two being amongst
young children, and shewed a mortality of 3.7 per thousand on the
estimated population of young children.
MEASLES.
(Decennial average 115.6)
Measles caused 135 deaths, of which all but six were amongst
young children aged less than five years, this being a mortality of
7.0 per thousand on the estimated population of young children,
under five years of age.