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Zymotic Mortality.—This includes the deaths from the
seven principal Zymotic diseases, viz.:—Smallpox, Scarlet Fever,
Diphtheria, Enteric Fever, Measles, Whooping Cough, and
Diarrhœa. The rate affords useful evidence as to the general
healthiness of the District, and as to the efficiency of its sanitary
administration. There were 5 deaths from these diseases, as
follows:—Diphtheria, 2; Scarlet Fever, 1; and Measles, 2.
The Zymotic death-rate was therefore 012 per 1,000 of the
population, the same as in the preceding year, and as against
0.19 in 1918 and 0.24 in 1917, and together with that of the
previous year is the lowest recorded in this district.
The average rate for the 10 years, 1910 to 1919, was 0.35.
The Public Mortuary.—During the year 14 bodies were
deposited in the Mortuary, as against 19 in the preceding year
and 30 in 1918.