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siderable number of attacks in younger children.
Crowding in schools has no doubt an important
influence. The use of common basins and towels, also
exchange of handkerchiefs, are all likely to favour the
spread of the complaint.
Enteric or Typhoid Fever.
There were 5 notifications and 2 deaths. The
parish has been exceptionally free from this disease
during the year. One death was probably due to the
fact of the patient having partaken of shell fish.
Enteritis.
Twelve notifications, followed by 8 deaths, 7
occurred in children under a year.
Diarrhoea.
The mortality from this complaint was the lowest
on record, (10), with the exception of the year 1903,
when the deaths numbered 9. It was prevalent as usual
during the Summer and Autumn, and confined almost
entirely to young children.
Whooping Cough
Was prevalent during the months of April, May and
June, resulting in II deaths, compared with 9 for 1907.
It is a more distressing malady than Measles and