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The Zymotic Death Rate equals 2.9, and shows an increase
over that of the preceding year, which was 1.5, due to an epidemic
of Diarrhoea during the summer months.
STATISTICAL SUMMARY, 1904.
Acreage 3,355
Population (Census 1901) 96,018
Do. (estimated 30th June, 1904) 116,902
Do. ( „ January, 1905) 121,428
Number or persons per acre 36.19
Births 3.717
Birth Rate per 1,000 living 31-78
Birth Rate (decennial average) 35.3
Nett Deaths 1,612
Recorded Death Rate 13.77
Death Rate (corrected for age and sex distribution)
14.69
Death Rate (decennial average) 13.2
Zymotic Death Rate per 1,000 living 2.9
Do. Death Rate per 100 deaths 21.8
Deaths of Infants under one year of age 575
Infantile Mortality per 1,ooo deaths 331
Do. per 1,000 births 154.6
Do. (decennial average) 144
Enteritis Mortality per 1,000 births 11.3
Diarrhœa Mortality per 1,000 births 50.8
Death Rates per 1,000 persons living from:—
Small Pox Nil
Measles 0.46
Scarlet Fever 0.08
Diphtheria 0.38
Whooping Cough 0.19
Typhoid Fever 0.12
Phthisis 1.18
Other Tubercular Diseases 0.49
Respiratory Diseases 2.32
Diarrhœa 1.61