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FEVER.
(Deoennial average 67.7).
The three different kinds of Fever caused 36 deaths,
26 of these were Enteric, 5 Typhus, and 5 simple ; 15
other cases occurred amongst patients removed from
this parish to the Asylums Board hospitals, but I
have no information as to what kind of fever they
were suffering from; the total number of deaths,
including the Hospital cases, was 51, three more than
last year. I must state that one other case was certified
as "Typhus three days, Disease of Uterus
some months." I am of opinion, from circumstances
which came to my knowledge, that the case was one
of advanced Cancer in the Womb, sinking into a
Typhus-like condition during the last few days of her
life.
WHOOPING COUGH.
{Decennial average 113).
Whooping Cough was extremely fatal, and caused
the greatest mortality amongst diseases of the Zymotic
Class: the number of deaths was 192, more than six
per cent, of the total deaths from all causes, a greater
number than in any single year of which I have a
record. This disease is most peculiar in its contagion.
It seems to be readily communicated to other children
within hearing of the affected one. It is mostly a
children's disorder, and when prevalent it is a common
thing, upon entering a train or omnibus full of people, to
hear the characteristic cough and whoop from some child