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I think it would be well worth the expense. Great
pressure has, to my knowledge, been put on parents to
send their children to school, even though there has been
a case of measles in the house, by teachers in elementary
schools, sometimes no doubt in ignorance of the existence
of measles in that particular house.
Whooping Cough caused 17 deaths. In this disease
again no attempts are made to check its spread.
Diarrhoea.—Twenty-five deaths were due to this cause.
They were considerably above the decennial average, as
was to be expected in so hot a summer as was experienced
last year. There have not been so large a number of
deaths from this cause since the year 1887, when the
summer was unusually hot.