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CONTINUED FEVER.
There were three cases of this indefinite disease
notified, all by the same medical practitioner.
NON-NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The deaths registered under this head numbered
102 which is equivalent to a death rate of 1.95. If we
add the 12 deaths occurring from the notifiable
infectious diseases, we find that the total infectious
diseases death rate amounts to 2.2 per 1,000 living, or
in other words, that these preventable diseases account
for over 15 per cent, of the total deaths for the year.
MEASLES.
There were ten deaths from this disease, most of
them occurring in the 2nd age period. This is the
time at which children first begin school attendance in
the baby and infant classes, and it is to this fact that
the wide spread of the disease during its epidemic
periods is to be chiefly ascribed.
WHOOPING COUGH.
19 deaths were registered as due to Whooping
Cough, and 14 of these were among children under one
year of age. Complicated as this disease frequently is
by pneumonia, it is a peculiarly dangerous one in young
infants.
DIARRHœA.
62 deaths were returned as due to this disease.
52 of these deaths occurred in children under one year,
which is equal to 20 per cent. of the total infant