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WHOOPING COUGH, DEATHS 151.
(Decennial Average 100.)
Whooping-Cough, the most fatal of the Zymotics, caused 151
deaths, all except six amongst young children, giving a mortality of
8 per thousand on the estimated population of young children.
MEASLES, DEATHS 149.
(Decennial Average, 110).
Like Whooping-cough, Measles chiefly affects children, and no
less than 142 little ones died from this disease during the year under
consideration; a mortality of 7.8 per thousand on the estimated
population of young children.
DIARRHŒA DEATHS, 109.
(Decennial Average, 102.)
Diarrhoea was the cause of 120 deaths, almost entirely amongst
young children; in eleven instances the disease which caused the
diarrhoea was also set forth in the certificate, and I have preferred to
classify the death under the more definite heading. The mortality
was in the proportion of 5.5 per thousand on the estimated population
of young children.
TUBERCULAR DISEASES
Phthisis.
Eight per cent. of the total mortality from all causes was referred
to pulmonary tuberculosis, which caused 235 deaths, equal to a
mortality of 1.8 per thousand persons living. The corresponding
Metropolitan mortality was 1.7. I believe that some of the high
mortality from tubercular disease in this district is attributable to