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An outbreak of influenza occurred during the
month of January and prevailed during the first four
months of the year, resulting in 15 deaths, a large
proportion being attributed to diseases of the pulmonary
organs.
A few cases of scarlet fever were notified during
each month of the year, which were of a mild type,
and showed a tendency to increase towards the latter
part, chiefly in December.
A slight outbreak of measles occurred during
July ; this complaint was more or less prevalent until
the end of the year, causing 11 deaths.
The rate of infantile mortality, or the proportion
of deaths under one year of age to every thousand
births, was 160, which is rather above the average ;
for London it was 165, and for thirty-three great
towns, 182. This comparatively high rate arises
from the faót that the cause lies in the daily personal
attention the infant receives, or the want of it, and
the nature and charaóter of the food administered,
and other domestic circumstances which cannot be
controlled by law. Last year, owing to the high
Summer and Autumn temperatures, there was an
increase of infantile diarrhoea which is usually so
fatal at that season, the deaths amounted to 26.
Population.
The natural increase of population, or the excess
of births over deaths, during the year 1895, amounted
to 310 ; for the year 1894, it was 395.
I have estimated the population for the middle of
the year at 24,582.