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pared with 12. The case mortality was 17.6 per cent.
There was also one death from continued fever, of which
there were six cases notified.
Puerperal Fever.—Twenty-one cases were reported, and
there were eight deaths, compared with seven last year.
Erysipelas.—373 cases were reported, and there were
17 deaths, compared with 274 and 16 in 1892.
Measles.—Only 33 deaths were registered from this
cause, compared with 78 last year, and considerably below
the decennial average.
it hooping Cough caused 77 deaths, also slightly below
the decennial average.
Influenza.—64 deaths were referred to this cause,
whereas 112 were due to it last year, when the
prevalence of this disease reached its maximum, and has
since gradually declined. It may be fairly hoped that
we shall have a succession of years with but little
experience of influenza, as, though no doubt it is a truly
infectious disease, there appears to be a predisposition
needed for epidemic influenza to exist in a population,
which predisposition appears to become exhausted in a few
years, if we may judge by the experience of former
epidemics. These deaths, referred here to influenza, were
due to complications, generally bronchitis and pneumonia,
and not simply to influenza. The same method is followed
in classifying the deaths from all the other zymotic
diseases, that is, referring to them all deaths from their
complications, even though the zymotic illness may be but
a remote cause of death.
Diarrhoea caused 114 deaths, compared with 51 and 82
in the two preceding years. This number exceeded the
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