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cause last year (0.14) was only one-third of the
decennial mean rate (0.42).
Scarlet fever.—From this disease there were 14
deaths during the year—nearly 2 less than the
decennial average. The scarlet fever death-rate
was 0.11 last year, the decennial mean rate being 0.12.
Only 1 of the deaths occurred within the Parish
limits, the remainder taking place in hospitals.
The case mortality was 3.3 per cent, at all ages,
5 6 at ages under 5, and 2.4 at ages of 5 years
and upwards. The case mortality at all ages in
1894 was 5.0 per cent. The case mortality among
those removed to hospital was 4.7 per cent, in 1895,
and 4.2 in 1894; whilst of the cases treated at
home, 0.7 per cent, proved fatal last year, as compared
with 5.8 per cent, in 1894.
Diphtheria.— The deaths from this disease, which
rose from 32 in 1892 to 69 in 1893 and 92 in 1894,
fell to 49 in 1895. The corrected decennial
average was 43—that for the first half of the decennium
being 41.5, and that for the second half
54.l. The death-rate from this cause was 0.39 in
1895, compared with a decennial mean rate of 0.35.
Table 23 shows the differences in incidence between
the two districts of the Parish, and between the two
years 1894 and 1895.
The case mortality last year was 206 per cent,
at all ages compared with one of 24.7 in 1894. At
ages under 5 years the mortality was 41.5 per cent.