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Thus we see that it has been with these diseases as with Enteric Fever
which is what one might reasonably expect, because similar factors are at
work in its causation. The improvement in the sanitation can hardly, however,
account for the very great decrease in the number of deaths last year; and we
must look to the meteorological conditions which prevailed as one of the
greatest of them. These have already been gone into when dealing with
Infantile Mortality.
It is an extraordinary fact that only 21 deaths were registered in the
third quarter, whereas as a rule they very seldom fall below 100, although from
1907 to 1910 they varied from 72 to 28. The appended Tables give full
particulars as to these diseases in the several districts of the Borough.