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typhus, enteric (or typhoid), and simple continued.
From the first and third there were no deaths
during the year. From enteric fever there were 15
deaths, a total practically equal to the decennial
average (15'6). The death-rate from this cause last
year was equal to the decennial mean rate (0'12).
The case mortality from enteric fever last year
was 21.4 per cent., that for 1894 being 32.8.
Among the patients removed to hospital the mortality
was 19.2, and among those treated at home, 22.7
per cent. In 1894 the mortalities were 32.3 among
the former, and 33.3 per cent, among the latter.
Diarrhœa.—There were 91 deaths ascribed to
this cause last year—23 (approximately) in excess
of the decennial average (68.4). Last year's total
has been exceeded once only in the eleven
years 1885-95, viz., in 1886, when there were 92
deaths. The death-rate from this cause last year
was 0.74 per 1,000 of all ages, the decennial mean
rate being 0.55. Of the 91 deaths from this
disease, 85 occurred at ages under 5 years, 72 under
1 year of age, and 13 at ages from 1 to 5 years.
The total of 72 in all probability represents
only a fraction of the deaths at ages under
one year from the vague disease known as "infantile
diarrhœa." There can be little doubt
that a certain but indeterminable proportion
of the deaths ascribed to "enteritis," "convulsions,"
and "atrophy and debility" were in