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Birth-rate.
The Birth-rate per thousand per annum is 34.
Death rate.
The Death rate per thousand per annum is 23.
Uncertified Deaths.
During the year there have been four deaths not legally certified :— two of children
who died in convulsions, one of a child prematurely born, and one of a woman who
died from flooding after parturition.
Inquests.
Sixty-six inquests have been held :—Twenty-live on persons drowned, seventeen on
persons who have died in convulsions ; eight in which the verdict was "natural causes" ;
four on deaths due to heart disease ; four on deaths due to accident ; two on cases of
"overlying" ; one each on the following cases:—A person burnt, a person who fell out
of bed, a person who died from starvation, person who fell down stairs, a person who by
misadventure took a poisonous lotion, and a person who received injury to head from
blow by a poker.
Zymotic Diseases.
The deaths due to these diseases with rate per thousand per annum :—Typhus
fever, none ; Typhoid fever, five ; Scailet fever, six ; Small-pox, none ; Measles,
twenty-four ; Diphtheria, two ; and Diarrhoea, forty-four. Total 81.
Of the number of deaths from Diarrhœa, thirty-eight were of infants, where the
disease was complicated with vomiting, marasmus, or convulsions.
The deaths from Measles were those of children, and the disease was in 84 per
cent, of the cases joined with Pneumonia or Bronchitis.
1886-7.
1885-6.
Typhus fever
none
Typhus fever
none
Typhoid fever
5
.12
Typhoid fever
7
.175
Scarlet fever
0
.142
Scarlet fever
8
.198
Small-pox
none
Small-pox
7
.175
Measles
24
.54
Measles
15
.37
Diphtheria
2
.047
Diphtheria
1
.025
Diarrhœa
44
. 1.04
Diarrhœa
28
.69
Diseases of the Respiratory Organs-
I am not able to give so defined and clear an enumeration of the deaths resulting
riom these diseases as I should like to do, for in the causes assigned on the certificates,
the complaints are not sufficiently differentiated. This is especially noticeable with
respect to the deaths due to Bronchitis.