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drowned in the docks; five deaths from falls in ships, and one killed on railway;
giving a total of 137 So that the entire number of deaths is: 937 + 89-137=887.
And upon this number I have estimated the death-rate.
Birth-rate.
The birth-rate per thousand per annum is 32.5.
Death-rate.
The death-rate per thousand per annum is 20.
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Uncertified Deaths.
During the twelve months all the causes of death have been legally certified..
Inquests.
Fifty-nine inquests have been held. The Coroner's Verdicts being as follow:—
Drowned 20; natural causes 11; infantile convulsions 11; falls in various parts of
ships 5; overlying 3; heart disease 3; sudden effusion of blood from lungs 1;
diarrhoea 1; wilfully murdered 1 (by an Italian) ; accidental 1; killed on railway 1.
Zymotic Diseases.
The deaths due to these diseases are: diarhœa 37; scarlet fever 14; measles 7;
typhoid fever 6; diphtheria 6; whooping cough 3; Typhus fever none; small pox none.
Total 73, giving a death-rate of 1.65 per thousand per annum. (The number in
previous twelve months was 81). Of the deaths from diarrhoea, 35 were of infants,
and were due in a great majority of cases to complication with marasmus and convulsions.
The deaths from measles were entirely amongst children. In these the real
causes of death were pneumonia and acute bronchitis.
1887-8. 1886-5. 1885-6.
Typhus fever none none none
Typhoid fever 6 .14 5 .12 7 .175
Scarlet fever 14 .3 6 .142 8 .198
Small-pox none none 7 .175
Measles 7 .15 24 .54 15 .37
Diphtheria 6 .14 2 .047 1 .025
Whooping Cough 3 .07 ...... ......
Diarrhoea 37 .84 44 .1 04 22 .69