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111 [1910
Years Cases. Deaths. Fatality.
1891 2,059 258 12.5
1892 3,318 291 8.7
1893 4.853 383 7.9
1894 3.121 339 10.8
1895 2,839 266 9.3
1896 3,824 390 10.2
1897 2,906 258 8.8
1898 2,418 173 7.1
1899 2,943 238 8.1
1900 2,276 202 8.8
1901 2,852 250 8.7
1902 3,164 268 8.4
1903 1,707 108 6.3
1904 1,941 119 6.1
1905 1,928 107 5.5
1906 2,275 115 5.0
1907 2,063 100 4.8
1908 2,289 126 5.5
1909 2,049 87 4.2
1910 1,525 79 5.2
Total 52,350 4.157 7.9
In the last annual report allusion was made to the largely decreased
fatality from these diseases, and it is, therefore, very satisfactory to find
that it continues to be low, for although the proportion now recorded is one
per cent. more than that of the preceding year, namely, 4.2, yet it is very
low, and is 2.7 below the mean fatality of the twenty years 1891-1910. The
decrease, as stated, has been almost uniformly steady, as during the five years
1891-95 it was 9.49 per cent.; in the next five years 1896-1900 it had decreased
to 8.77 ; in the next period 1901-05 it had further fallen to 7.34, and in the
last five years 1906-10 it was 4.97 per cent.
This decrease will be better seen when these figures are tabulated in
quinquennial periods.
Years. Cases Deaths. Fatality.
1891-1895 16,160 1,537 9.49
1896-1900 14,367 1,261 8.77
1901- 1905 11,592 852 7.34
1906-1910 10,201 507 4.97
1891-1910 52,350 4,157 7.94