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During the year, five hundred and forty-eight cases were
notified, shewing a great reduction upon previous years, the
annual average being nine hundred and seventy-five. The
following shews the number notified during each year from
1890 to 1900 : —
1890 505
1891 738
1892 1,171
1893 1,407
1894 837
1895 830
1896 1111
1897 1,621
1898 809
1899 721
1900 548
Annual average for preceding
io years 975
The cases were fairly equally distributed throughout the
year, being rather more prevalent in the month of October,
when sixty-five cases were notified, the monthly average for
the year being 42.1 cases.
Age Distribution.—As usual, most of the cases occurred
between the ages of five and fifteen years; five were under
one year of age, one hundred and forty-nine between one
and five years, three hundred and fourteen between five and
fifteen years, sixty-one between fifteen and twenty-five, and
nineteen were twenty-five years and upwards.