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Sanitary Administration of the District. 7
EPIDEMIC DISEASES.
Deaths from the seven principal epidemic diseases, viz:
Small-pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Whooping-cough,
Fever (Typhus, Enteric and Continued), and Diarrhoea, number 13,
which is equal to a rate of 0.4 per 1,000 of the population
*VACCINATION AND SMALL-POX.
Fifteen per cent, of the school children are unvaccinated, and
exemption certificates are obtained for 25 per cent, of all children
born in the district.
In order to prevent the spread of Small-pox, every individual
should be twice successfully vaccinated. The present half-and-half
measures are a common danger, as a person, say, vaccinated once
in infancy may contract the disease in a mild form, be undetected
and spread the disease far and wide, whereas if he had not been
vaccinated at all he would get the disease badly, be very ill, would
be recognised at once, and promptly isolated, while all contacts
would be immediately vaccinated.
"Figures kindly supplied by Mr. Raggett, Vaccination Officer.

*Total nett deaths relegated to the district by the Registrar General and
including residents who have died outside the district.