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INFLUENZA, BRONCHITIS, PNEUMONIA.
63. Influenza caused 25 deaths, compared with 36, 39,
19, 25, and 35, in the five preceding years. Bronchitis and
pneumonia caused 285 deaths, compared with 245, 232, 200,
208, and 253, in the five preceding years. The deaths from
these causes under five yeaTS were 90, compared with 86,
66, 55, 70, and 70, in the five preceding years. There were
more deaths of persons under five from bronchitis and
broncho-pneumonia than for several years past.
Many of these deaths were probably really due to whoopingcough
and some to measles. There has, however, been an
excess of deaths from bronchitis and pneumonia during the
past two years which is not easy to account for.
TUBERCULOSIS.
64. Deaths. There were 216 deaths from tuberculous
disease, giving a death-rate of 1.68, oompared with 1.68,
1.46, 1.65, 1.34, and 1.69, in the five preceding years.
65. The following table gives the number of deaths
from each of the various forms of tuberculosis in the past
ten years, and also the deaths from simple meningitis:—