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Old Age.
One hundred and twenty-nine persons died aged
seventy years and upwards ; of these sixty-three had
attained eighty, and six over ninety years of age; one
also was a centenarian.
Inquests.
Twenty-three inquests were held, the verdicts
returned attributing the causes of death as " acci.
dental " in nine cases, " natural causes " in ten, and
as suicide, in four cases.
Notifiable Diseases.
Under this heading: I am able to make a most
satisfactory statement, a great reduction in the number
of cases notified having occurred in comparison
with the previous year. The case rate is 3.8 per
1,000 of population. A considerable amount of this
class of disorder is sure to prevail in a district like
ours; but at no period of the year did it assume any
serious proportions, although more prevalent in the
poorer and more thickly populated portions of the
borough. Scarlatina, as a rule of a benign type,
afforded the largest number of infectious cases, and of
these only one died. This disease accounts for 108
of the total of 194 notifications.
Diphtheria came next with forty-three, five cases
of which proved fatal; and erysipelas with thirty-six
and two deaths. Only five cases of enteric fever were
notified, and of this number four contracted the disease
outside the borough. Two cases of puerperal
fever were also reported. Each of these two latter
diseases resulted in one death. Thus 139 fewer cases
were notified than in 1907.