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the conclusion of the illness, as a result of this action, disinfection
has been carried out in very many cases.
Typhoid Fever. This disease lias only been the occasion
of one death in the Borough throughout the year. This death
occurred in East Greenwich. This is an unusually small number
of deaths from this very fatal ailment, and would tend to show
that the type of illness prevalent during the year, of which there
have been 44 cases notified, has been particularly mild. Here,
again, it is quite probable that the climatic conditions have
tended to produce a less resistant disease organism. The total
death rate from this disease is 0.01.
Diarrhœa. Diarrhœa has occasioned 67 deaths, equalling
a death rate of 0.67 per 1,000. Forty-four of these deaths
occurred in East Greenwich, 12 in West Greenwich, 5 in St.
Nicholas, and 6 in Charlton. This number of deaths is considerably
more than occurred throughout the previous year,
but is still less than the number during the year 1901. The
improvement occasioned by the very wet season does not appear
to have been so marked in connection with fatalities from this
disease, as one would have anticipated. I enclose a Chart,
showing in graphic form the number of deaths due to the various
Zymotic diseases as they occurred in the Borough week by week
throughout the year.
Influenza. Influenza has occasioned 14 deaths throughout
the Borough during the year. Two of these being in persons
under the age of 5 years. Three of the deaths occurred in East
Greenwich, 8 in West Greenwich, 1 in St. Nicholas, and 2 in
Charlton. There does not appear to have been any serious outbreak
of this disease during the year, as the number of deaths