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APPENDIX No. 1.
REPORT
of
Medical Officer of Health,
From January lst, 1885, to March 25th, 1885.
Gentlemen,
The Report I submit to you is not for twelve months, but only
for three.
It was suggested to me that by making the report for three months, I
should, for the future, bring the two Reports—the Financial and Medical—to
agree as to date, so that there would be no delay in sending out the Yearly
Report.
As the suggestion appeared to me one worthy of being carried out, I
agreed to make my report only for the time needful to secure this uniformity
of date.
In the three months 382 Births—201 males and 181 females—and 233
Deaths —128 males and 105 females—were registered; giving a total increase of
149 persons—73 males and 76 females.
The birth-rate per thousand per annum is 35 4, and the death-rate 13 46.
During this time all the causes of death have been legally certified, either
by Coroner or Medical Practitioner.
Twenty-eight inquests have been held.
The causes of death are as follows:—Diseases of the respiratory organs,
85; measles, 17; senile decay, 10; disease of the kidneys, 9; infantile convulsions,
9; marasmus, 9; inflammation of brain, 6; heart disease, 5; whooping
cough, 5; paralysis, 4; scarlet fever, 3; small-pox, 2; apoplexy, 2; inflammation
of bowels, 2; deaths during parturition, 2; cancer of nose, 1; pyaemia, 1; rheumatism,
1; intestinal obstruction, 1; diarrhœa, 1; typhus fever, 1; diphtheria, 1.
The deaths due to the principal infectious diseases during the three months
were—measles, 17; whooping cough, 5; small-pox, 2; diphtheria, 1; scarlet fever,
3; typhus fever, 1.