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EPIDEMIC DIARRHCEA
During the year diarrhoea and enteritis caused 81 deaths, as compared with 108 deaths from
the same group of diseases in 1913.
TUBERCULOSIS.
The number of deaths from tuberculosis was 267, the crude and standardised death-rates being
1.56 per 1,000. The mortality in the years 1901-1914 from phthisis, other tuberculous diseases,
and all forms of tuberculosis is expressed in the following Table as the number of deaths per
100,000 persons living in the periods to which the death-rates refer.

Since 1900 the death-rate from tuberculosis has varied between extremes of 195 per 100,000
in 1904, and 109 in 1910, as compared with a rate of 156 in the year under consideration, and an
average rate of 159 in the ten years 1901-1910. In the year under notice the deaths from phthisis
(pulmonary tuberculosis) numbered 189, and corresponded to a crude death-rate of 1.10 per 1,000
living, and a standardised rate of 1.00. The deaths from other forms of tuberculosis numbered 78,
and were equivalent to a death-rate of 0-5 per 1,000 of the population.
The incidence of deaths from tuberculosis on the Wards in the Borough was as follows: —