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Twelve of these deaths were due to Diarrhoea or Enteritis, which was very prevalent
during the month of August; five were due to premature births ; and two were the result
of accidental suffocation.
A potent reason for this outbreak of intestinal trouble was to be, in all probability,
found in the increased temperature during that month.
There have been seventeen deaths recorded from the principal zymotic diseases
(Whooping Cough, 4; Diarrhoea, 9; Diphtheria, 3; and Enteric Fever, 1), equal to a rate
of 2-2 per thousand of the population.
Eleven deaths were the subjects of Coroner's Inquests during the year, and the
verdicts of the Juries were as follows:—Natural Causes, 6; Accidents, 4; and Drowning, 1.

Of the fifty-one cases of Scarlet Fever 37 were removed to the Isolation Hospital,
and I am pleased to report that not a single death occurred from this disease.
This disease was most prevalent during the months of July and August.
The primary cause of this outbreak was in all probability due to an infected child
being in contact with other children who were at the time attending school.
Two cases only of Enteric Fever occurred in the district (both patients belonging to
the same family), the first of which was undoubtedly due to eating contaminated oysters while
away from home.
Both these patients recovered; and the death from this disease recorded took place
at the Workhouse Infirmary at Kingston.
Eight patients suffering from Diphtheria were treated at Isolation Hospital.
There were two distinct outbreaks of Measles during the year—at Hampton during
the Spring, and at Hampton Hill nearly at the close of the year.
Both outbreaks were severe, necessitating the closure of the Public Elementary
Schools; and the managers of the various Sunday Schools, upon my recommendation, kindly
closed those schools also.
There was no fatality from this disease.
Needless to say, the work of disinfecting the various tenements entailed a large
amount of labour upon the Sanitary Inspector, considerably over two hundred rooms having
been disinfected by him with Formalin during the year.
Isolation Hospital—The Isolation Hospital erected by the Council has been in full
working order since March, and has proved of great service to the District for the purposes
for which it was built.
This Hospital comprises a pavilion with four wards, with kitchens, bathrooms, and
lavatories; an administrative block; laundry and steam disinfecting apparatus; mortuary and
coach house. ,