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Zymotic Alor/ulity.—The deaths from this class of disease
were 218—118 of males and 100 of females—and are 24 in
excess of those of the previous year. The greatest fatality
was from Diarrhœa, Measles and Whooping-Cough, and
contributed 157 of the total. The reason of the increase of
this over last was due entirely to Diarrhœa, 64 being returned
as against 39.
Fevers other than Scarlet and Measles were 13, and classified
as follows:—Typhoid, 12; Typhus, 1. This small
number speaks well for the way in which our drainage matters
are looked after.
Of the total number 100 were under 1 and 82 from 1 to 5
years of age, thus more than two-thirds occurred in children
under 5 years—the most susceptible period of life to Zymotic
poison.

The death-rate from this class of diseases was 3.6 per 1,000
of the population, exactly the same as that of last year.