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From this table it appears that the deaths in 12 years due to
scarlet fever, diphtheria, enteric fever, and small-pox, all taken
together numbered 300, to hooping cough 469, to measles 831.
In children under five years, therefore, it is seen that measles
kills more than twice the number of children whose deaths are
caused by small-pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and typhoid all
included.
Hooping cough causes a little more than one-and-a-half times
the number of deaths accredited to the other four named infectious
diseases.
SCARLET FEVER.
The number of notifications, 159, and the number of deaths, 5,
are, with the exception of 1910, less than they have been in any
previous year since the Borough was formed.
With the exception of 9 cases, all the rest, 150 in number, were
in children between one and fifteen years.
The deaths were 315 per cent, of the total number of cases, or
one in every 32 children affected died.
Four cases were treated at home; suitable measures were taken
to ensure the isolation of the patient.