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Sporadic. Tetanus. Two deaths have been ascribed to
this disease during the year, one of the patients being under 5
years of age, and one over that age. No source of infection
could be found for the cause of the death of one child ; in
the case of the other patient, there was a possibility that the home
treatment of an ulcerated ankle was the source of the infection.
Venereal. Syphilis. This disease has been ascribed as
the cause of 3 deaths during the year, all being in children under
5 years of age, hence, undoubtedly, they were sufferers from
hereditary conditions.
Septic. Erysipelas. This was the cause of 2 deaths during
the year.
Puerperal Fever. Puerperal Fever has occasioned one
death. In this case a nurse only was present at the birth, the
medical attendant not arriving until later. No definite source of
infection could be found.
Pyemia and Septicemia caused 4 deaths.
Infective Endocarditis is credited with one death, making
altogether a total of 8, with a death rate of 0-08 to this class of
disease.
Malarial. Rheumatic Fever is credited with 5 deaths during
the year, all of them being in children under 5 years of age.
Tuberculosis. This class of disease has occasioned 169
deaths during the year, with a death rate of 1 "67 per 1000, comparing
with 161 deaths and a death rate of 161 per 1000 during
the previous year.