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MEDICAL OFFICER'S REPORT.
MR. Chairman and Gentlemen,
I have the honour, for the twenty-second time, to place
before you a summary of the sanitary measures adopted in this
district during the past year, together with the statistics of disease
and death for the same period.
The total number of deaths registered was 738, of which
388 occurred in Christ Church, and 350 in St. Saviour's. The
total number of births was 1,052 ; they were thus comprised:—
Christ Church Males 273
Females 230
503
St. Saviour's Males 278
Females 271
549
The deaths in Christ Church workhouse amounted to 87. At
the risk of being charged with iteration, I wish to point out that
the higher mortality in Christ Church is caused by the workhouse,
which is there situate, being now filled with aged and infirm men,
the majority of whom have previously resided in some other part
of the district. Of the total number of persons who died in the
workhouse, 49 were between 70 and 80 years old, and 12 between
80 and 90.
The deaths occurring under tho head of epidemic or contagious
diseases in the parish of Christ Church were: small-pox 5,
measles 11, scarlet fever 4, hooping cough 6, diarrhoea 8, enteric
fever 3, diphtheria 1, and syphilis 3—total 41. And in St. Saviour's
parish—small-pox 7, measles 38, scarlet fever 4, hooping cough 12,
diarrhoea 8, diphtheria 1, enteric fever 1, syphilis 1—total 72.
The following is a statement of all the deaths from various
causes which occurred during the year:—