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year, and 909, 795 and 497 in the years 1910, 1909 and 1908 respectively.
The ages and incidence of fatality of the disease was as follows:—Of
the total number, 17 were children under one year of
age, amongst which cases there occurred 6 fatalities, equal to a
case mortality of 35 per cent. There were 323 cases between one
and five years of age, amongst whom there were 22 deaths, giving
a case mortality of 6.8 per cent. Between the ages of five to fifteen
years there were 245, with no deaths at this age period. There was
1 case at ages twenty-five to sixty-five with no death.
The case mortality for the whole district works out at 4.8 per
cent.