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crushing, 2 by drowning, 1 by cutting or piercing instruments
and 1 by jumping from high place.
Accidents.
84 deaths were due to accidents, against 108 in the previous
year.
II.—NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
In Table VII. of Appendix will be found particulars of infectious
diseases notified during the year under report.
The number of cases notified, exclusive of notifications of
tuberculosis, which numbered 345, was 935, compared with 930
in 1915 and 950 in 1914. All the diseases show a decrease on the
number for the previous year, with the exception of poliomyelitis
and opthalmia-neonatorum, which show an increase of
10 and 7 respectively.
The attack per thousand inhabitants was 8.2, against 7.6 for
1915.
28 cases were returned from hospital as not suffering from
the disease for which they were notified, but if allowance is made
for mild unreported cases, the recorded notifications would, if
anything, understate the actual number of cases.
Small-pox.
One case was notified as small-pox, but on examination by
the Medical Officer of Health was found to be suffering from a
form of eczema.
Typhus Fever.
No cases of typhus fever were notified during the year under
report.
Diptheria.
There were 249 cases of diphtheria notified in 1916 as
against 225 cases in 1915. There was therefore a slight recrudescence
of the disease, the cause of which I was unable to discover.
The attack-rate per thousand inhabitants was 2.19, against
1.98 in 1915. The case mortality was 11.6 per cent., against 8.8