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Small Pox. There was an entire absence of this disease.
Vaccination. According tu the official return of public
Vaccination made to the Local Government Board it
appears that, of the 1,452 children, whose births were
registered in the sub-district during the year 1888, 1,206
were successfully vaccinated; 117 died unvaccinated;
in 23 the operation was postponed on account of sickness;
5 were certified as insusceptible; and 3 removed to
places, the Vaccination Officer of which was duly
notified; the remaining 98 or 6.7 per cent had removed
to places which could not be reached or were unknown.
The months in which the deaths from epidemic
diseases occurred, with the mean temperature of each
quarter, are shewn in the following table. The deaths
in the third quarter are seen to have far exceeded those
of the other quarters, and most of the excess to have
been due to Infantile Diarrhoea; of the 44 deaths
recorded, 20 occurred in the third quarter, 10 in the
fourth, 7 in the first and the same number in the second
ouartcr.