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INTER-NOTIFICATION.
Whenever there appeared to be any suspicion of
infection having been imported from an outside
district, the medical officer of health of that district
has been duly notified of the fact, both with a view
to obtaining further information, and to warn him of
possible centres of infection in his district.
DEATHS.
During the year 2,186 deaths, 1,109 of males and
1,077 of females, were registered within the Parish,
equivalent to an uncorrected rate of 17.12 per 1,000
of the estimated population at all ages, as compared
with rates of 15.78, 18.32, 16.57, and 15.37 recorded
in the years 1894-97 respectively. Last year's total
included (among others) 1,011 deaths from local
diseases, 436 from constitutional, 387 from zymotic,
and 152 from developmental. The 387 deaths from
the zymotic diseases included 99 from diarrhoea, 95
from measles, 45 from whooping cough, 31 from diphtheria,
15 from enteric (or typhoid) fever, and 2 from
scarlet fever, equivalent to an uncorrected zymotic
rate of 2.24 per 1,000. To epidemic iufiuenza were
attributed 66 deaths, to cancer 133, and to the
tubercular diseases 270. The uncorrected infantile
mortality was 169 per 1,000 births registered.
The foregoing figures include 330 deaths of nonparishioners,
and take no account of 174 deaths of
parishioners registered beyond the Parish. By