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On page 18 will be seen a table analysing the
causes of the deaths. This list gives a fairly good
idea of the various causes contributing to death during
the year. One could write much on this list
and a perusal of it will give rise to much cogitation
on the part of any intelligent person. He will note
how the lung complaints assail the very young and the very
old, how Tuberculosis spares the babe, that Cancer is a
disease of elderly persons, how few women die nowadays of
Puerperal Fever, etc.
To have no death from Enteric Fever or Scarlet Fever
is a circumstance on which any large district may pride itself.
It speaks eloquently for a good water supply, excellent
methods of sewage disposal, and a sufficient isolation hospital
accommodation.
Zymotic Diseases.
The deaths registered were as follows:—
Small-pox
—
Measles
2
Scarlet Fever
—
Whooping Cough
6
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup
4
Enteric Fever
—
Diarrhoea
18
Total
30
This gives a Zymotic death-rate of 35, the lowest ever
recorded in the district.
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
The number of infants dying within the first year of their
life was 93, the total number born being 1,505.
The infantile mortality or rate of death per 1,000 births
is therefore 62,