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causes death. This should be contrasted with summer or infective
diarrhoea, which strikes even the most healthy and well nourished babiesThis
disease is generally conveyed by flies which contaminate milk, if
improperly kept, and thus infants who are fed on cow's milk become
infected. The educative influences of Welfare Centres have played a
large part in eliminating this infection. Mothers are taught how to
pasteurise milk and how to keep it chilled and free from contamination.
Of the 13 deaths, none were due to diarrhoea of the summer or infective
type. There were eight under 1 year; one between 1 and 2 years;
two between 2 to 5 years and two over 65 years.

The eight deaths under 1 year of age were distributed over the quarters
of the year :—

The average death rate from diarrhoea and enteritis for all ages during
the five-year period was 0.09 per 1,000. The average from this cause
under 1 year of age was 5.37 per 1,000 births for the same period. The
death rate under one year for 1925 from the same cause was 5.21
per 1,000 births.
Whooping Cough.—An outbreak occurred in the early spring
which accounted for 205 of the total 255 of cases recorded. The former
number of cases were all during the first quarter of the year. The cases
coming to the knowledge of the department in 1925 and in previous
years were :—