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Whooping- Cough
occurred during the autumn and winter months,
resulting in nine deaths of children under six years
of age. In the previous year, the deaths numbered two,
and in 1908 they were eleven.
Diarrhoea
was responsible for five deaths in children under the
age of one year. This complaint is much influenced by
the temperature, being far more general during the
summer months, and is also due, to a certain extent,
to injudicious feeding, rather than insanitary surroundings.
Enteritis
was the cause of three deaths of children under five
years of age.
Enteric or Typhoid Fever.
There were four notifications but no deaths from
this disease. Three were of young persons under
twenty-five, and one over that age.
Cancer or Malignant Diseases.
Twenty-six deaths were attributed to these fatal
diseases, (9 males, 17 females), compared with thirty-six
for the previous year and 39 for the year 1908. The
following table indicates the locality, age, and sex:—
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