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Continued and Typhus Fever.
No cases of continued fever were notified during the year.
We have had no case of typhus fever since 1903, when we had
one case, and in 1901 we had eight cases.
Diarrhœa and Enteritis.
1913 Average of
previous 10 years.
Number of Deaths 106 81
Death rate per 1,000 (all ages) 0'95 0'74
Death rate per 1,000 (under two
years of age) 0.81
Under this heading are included deaths registered as due to
epidemic diarrhoea, epidemic enteritis, infective enteritis, zymotic
enteritis, summer diarrhoea, dysentery and dysenteric diarrhoea,
choleraic diarrhoea, cholera (other than Asiatic or epidemic) and
cholera nostras.
Under the heading of "Enteritis" are included deaths registered
as due to enteritis, muco-enteritis, gastro-enteritis, gastric catarrh, and
gastro-intestinal catarrh. Gastritis is a separate disease.
These diseases were the cause of 106 deaths during 1913 compared
with 37 for 1912. Of this number 99 were of children under
five years of age, 90 of these being under two years of age.
The death rate was 0*95 per 1,000 at all ages, and 0'81 for infants
under two years of age.
The older statistics do not give an accurate comparison with 1911,
1912, and 1913, because the heading of Diarrhoea did not, before these
dates, include the names mentioned above, but simply cases registered
as epidemic or summer diarrhoea, or epidemic, zymotic or infective
enteritis.
It is usual now to consider the infantile mortality in this case as
being for all children under two years of age.
The deaths from this disease occurred among the inhabitants of the
various Wards as follows:—
East 45. North 19. North-West 25.
South 3. South-East 7. South-West 7.
The following table shows the periods of the year, and the localities
in which deaths from Diarrhoea and Enteritis occurred, together with
particulars as to sex:—
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