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10
Zymotic
Death Rate.
The deaths from all causes during the year
included 29 from Measles, 6 from Scarlet Fever,
67 from Diarrhoea &c., 6 from Diphtheria, 16 from Whooping
Cough, 3 from Enteric or Typhoid Fever, 29 from Influenza, 5
from Erysipelas, but none from Puerperal Fever; in all 161 deaths
from diseases classified by the Registrar General as Specific
Febrile, or Zymotic. This is equivalent to a Zymotic deathrate
of 3.8 per thousand.
This high rate is due to the increased mortality from Diarrhoea
and Measles, the fatal cases of which numbered respectively
67 and 29, as compared with 47 and 13 in 1898. On the other
hand deaths from Diphtheria are much below those in 1899, when
their number was 21. Deaths from Scarlet Fever, Whooping
Cough, and Erysipelas have risen from 12 and 2, to 6, 16 and 5
respectively. Enteric or Typhoid Fever and Influenza have
fallen from 6 and 31 to 3 and 29.

Phthisis
Mortality,
&c.
In Table I., Class IV., 136 deaths are recorded
as arising from some form of tubercular disease, of
which number 48 occurred in the Dockyard Sub-District, and