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Smallpox, No case of this disease occurred in the Urban
District during the year.
Scarlet Fever. 29 cases of this disease were notified. The
disease occurred in isolated instances and nowhere assumed
the character of an epidemic. One death was caused by it.
Diphtheria. 45 cases were notified. Three deaths were
caused by it.
Enteric Fever was unusually absent in this, as in other
neighbouring districts, during the year. Four cases were
notified, three of which were fatal.
Infantile Diarrhœa was more than usually prevalent.
20 deaths (19 of which were under one year of age) resulted
from this disease.
Measles prevailed to a considerable extent at the end of the
year, one death resulting from it.
Zymotic Diseases caused seven deaths.
Enteric Fever 3
Diphtheria 3
Scarlet Fever 1
The death-rate from this class of disease was 0.4. The
death-rate for the last five years being:0.8, 0.2, 0.8, 0.2,
0.4.