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On reference to the table it is seen that the total
deaths that occurred from the above diseases amounted
to 116, 111 of which were of the epidemic kind. The
latter exceeded the average number by 27 or 32 per cent.
The cxccss was due to Whooping-Cough, Measles,
Diarrhoea and Diphtheria. Whooping-Cough was the
most extensively prevalent and fatal of these diseases,
having caused 31 deaths, or 11 above the average ; it
prevailed for the most part during the first seven months
of the year. During the same period Measles was also
unusually prevalent, causing 28 deaths, or more than
double the average. Diarrhoea was very prevalent in
the hot season, and resulted in 28 deaths, or 5 more than
the average. The deaths were exclusively confined to
infants, and with two exceptions wholly under one year
of age. Diphtheria caused 10 deaths, or 6 above the
average. Scarlet Fever, as in the Metropolis generally,
declined in amount, producing 6 deaths only, or 7 below
the average. The deaths from Fever were 8 in number—
the average amount. Small-pox was entirely absent from
the sub-district, not a single case having occurred during
the year.
Vaccination.—The record of Vaccination, as contained
in the Return made by the Vaccination Officer to the
Local Government Board, may be here satisfactorily
considered. Respecting the vaccination of children
whose births occurred in 1885, it appears from such
Return that of 1,121 children born, 951 were successfully
vaccinated, 1 was returned as "insusceptible," 91
died unvaccinated, 15 were postponed on account of
sickness, and 4 removed to places duly recorded, leaving
59 or 5.2 per cent, who had removed to places unknown
or which could not be reached.
Recurring to infectious diseases, eight cases only of