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The following table shews the percentage of deaths from each
lisease as compared with the total number of Zymotic Deaths.
TABLE F.
Small Pox
0.95 per cent, or 1 in 105.2 deaths.
Measles
24.90 „ „ 4.01 „
Scarlatina
10.07 „ „ 9.92 „
Diphtheria
22.62 „ „ 4.42 „
Whooping Cough
23.18 „ „ 4.31 „
Typhus Fever
0.0 „ „ 0.0 „
Enteric Fever
4.18 „ „ 23.91 „
Simple Fever
0.0 „ „ 0.0 „
Diarrhoea
14.07 ,, „ 7.08 ,,
SMALL POX.
(Decennial Average, 11.1).
Thirty-nine cases of Small Pox were reported during the year,
land all except six were removed to Hospital. Five died, two of
whom (adults) had been vaccinated; but three (children) were
unvaccinated. The mortality on the reported cases was 12.82 per
cent.
SCARLET FEVER.
(Decennial Average, 79.3).
The cases of Scarlet Fever notified during the year numbered
924, resulting in 53 deaths, or a mortality of 5 73 per cent, on the
reported cases.
FEVERS.
(Decennial Average, 28.6).
The number of cases of Enteric and Continued Fevers reported
was 102, of which all but five were notified as Enterica. This
disease caused 22 deaths, a mortality of 21.5 per cent. on the total
number of cases reported.