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NOTIFICATIONS.
During the twelve months 847 cases of infectious
disease were notified, 50 less than in the preceding
year. The sickness-rate, based on the notifications,
was 6.89 per 1,000 persons, the rate for 1894 having
been 7.38. The cases notified last year were—10 of
small-pox, 226 of diphtheria, 104 of erysipelas, 416
of scarlet fever, 70 of enteric fever, 11 of membranous
croup, 8 of puerperal fever, and 1 each of cholera,
and relapsing fever. Of the 847 cases notified, 717
were reported from the northern half of the Parish,
and 130 from the southern. In Table 9 will be found
the numbers of each disease reported each quarter
from each portion of, and the whole Parish, together
with the corresponding rates, calculated on the
estimated populations of each portion, the corresponding
rates for 1894 being given for the sake of
comparison.
The first quarter of the year was particularly free
from all classes of infectious diseases (the rate for the
Parish was only 3.46), the exemption being shared by
both halves of the Parish almost equally. At present
there is no series of meteorological records available,
but it seems fair to think that the exceptionally
severe winter of 1894-95 had a good deal to do with
the exemption.
With the second quarter there commenced an
unexpected outbreak of scarlet fever, which taxed the