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young children. Forty-two children suffering from
Whooping-cough were removed to M.A.B. Hospitals,
where sixteen of them died.
DIARRHOEA.
Deaths 145 (Decennial Average 81).
Diarrhoea was very prevalent during the autumn, and
was the cause of 115 infantile deaths, a mortality of 28.7
per thousand births.
MEASLES.
Deaths 59 (Decennial Average 81).
The mortality from measles has continued to decrease;
all the deaths from this disease were amongst young
children aged less than five years, a mortality of 3.6 per
thousand children under that age. 530 cases of measles
were reported to us by head teachers of elementary schools,
all were visited and the surroundings carefully noted. In
ninety-nine instances the home conditions were so
unfavourable that removal to hospital was necessary.
Twenty-nine of the children so removed died, as a result,
in the majority of instances, of the accompanying lung
complication. It is an evidence of the carelessness with
which people still regard measles that ninety-one of the
little sufferers were unprovided with medical care.
CHICKEN POX.
We received notice of 241 cases of Chicken Pox; they
were visited and dealt with in the usual manner and call
for no special remark.