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ANALYSIS OF DEATHS AT ALL AGES IN RELATION TO
DISEASE GROUPS.
CLASS I.—Infective Diseases (240).
Small-Pox.—No deaths occurred from this disease.
Measles.—Measles was recorded as the cause of 21 deaths,
equal to a death rate of 0.14 per 1,000 of the population.
There is reason to believe that this disease was far less prevalent,
compared with 1905, when the death-rate amounted to 0.28
per 1,000. It is not a notifiable disease, consequently the case
mortality cannot be obtained.
Scarlet Fever.—Fourteen deaths were notified in the
Borough, equal to a mortality rate of 0.09 per 1,000 of the
population, compared with 0.03 in 1905. The actual number of
cases notified amounted to 543, compared with 548 in 1905.
From this it will lie seen that during the year under review,
fewer cases of scarlet fever existed. Notwithstanding this fact
the deatli-rate was higher. On considering the case mortality
it is found that of the 543 recorded cases 2.57 per cent, proved
fatal, compared with 0.9 per cent, in 1905.
Diphtheria.-There were 21 deaths from diphtheria,
giving a mortality rate for the Borough of 0.14 per 1,000 of the
population, compared with 0.06 in 1905. In regard to this
disease, not only was there a considerable increase in the number
of notifications but the disease assumed a more fatal form, the
case mortality being 8.6 per cent, of the actual cases, compared
with 5.6 in 1905.
Whooping Cough.—Twenty-six deaths occurred from
Whooping Cough, equivalent to a death rate of 0.18 per 1,000,
the figure for 1905 being 0.17.
Enteric Fever.—There was only one fatal case, equal to
a death rate of 0.01 per 1,000. The case mortality was equal