View report page

12
During these four weeks however there were 13 deaths from
measles, as against 1, 3, 5, 5 and 6 in the five preceding
periods.
In the following (seventh) period, comprising the 25th-28th
weeks, the deaths from measles further rose to 16, while the
deaths from whooping cough fell to 3. In this period the
death-rate fell to the lowest point for the year, viz., 12.5 per 1,000,
being 4.4 per 1,000 below the decennial rate, and 5.4 per 1,000
below the Metropolitan rate (19.8), which was 1.9 per 1,000
below the decennial average. The mean temperature in this
period (from June 18 to July 15) was 59°.2, or 2°.5 below
the decennial average; and there was much rain. To these
causes, cool and rainy weather, we were indebted for the
comparative absence of diarrhœa; there were but two deaths
from this cause during the four weeks, the corrected decennial
average being 16.
In the next, eighth, period (29th-32nd weeks, July 16 to
August 12), the deaths from diarrhœa rose to 12, the mean
temperature being 61°.2: the death-rate, moreover, rose to
13.6 per 1,000, being, however, 4.7 per 1,000 below the
decennial rate, and 4.9 per 1,000 below the Metropolitan
rate, which again was 4.8 per 1,000 below the decennial
average. The deaths from the principal diseases of the zymotic
class, which in the previous month had been 11 below the
corrected decennial average, were during the period under
notice, no fewer than 30 below the average, still owing to the
comparative abeyance of infantile diarrhoea, the deaths from
this disease being 32 below the decennial average corrected for
increase of population. The deaths from measles, which in the
previous month had risen to 16, fell to 8.
In the following, ninth, period (33rd-36th weeks, August 13
to September 9), there were 8 deaths from measles and only
two deaths from whooping cough: the deaths from diarrhoea
(12) were 18 below the average. Scarlet fever, which now
began to be prevalent, caused six deaths. The death-rate,
nevertheless, fell again to 12.6 per 1,000, or 3.2 per 1,000 below