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Taking the number of deaths of persons belonging to the District at 95, in accordance
with the above table, this gives a death-rate of 10.5 per thousand; an improvement on last year's
rate of 11.8 per thousand.
Thirty-eight of these deaths were of persons 60 years of age and upwards, of whom 11
were between 60 and 70; 18 between 70 and 80; 7 between 80 and 90; and 2 were over 90.
Eighteen deaths occurred among infants under one year of age from the following
causes, viz.: Measles, 1; Diarrhoeal diseases, 6; Debility, 5; Convulsions, 3; Pneumonia, 1;
Suffocation, 1; and other diseases, 1.
This is equal to a mortality rate of 90.9 per thousand births; a slight increase on the
rate for 1905, which was 86-5 per thousand births.
I would point out that although the mortality rate amongst infants has slightly
increased during the dast year, the rate for 1906 is 33.4 per thousand births lower than the
average rate for the previous ten years.
There have been eleven deaths registered from the principal zymotic diseases (Diphtheria,
1; Measles, 4; Diarrhoea, 6), equal to a rate of 1.2 per thousand of the population, a reduction
on last year's rate, which was 2'0 per thousand.
Six deaths were the subject of Coroner's Inquests during the year, the verdicts of the
Juries being as follows : Suicide, 1; Accidents, 3; Natural Causes, 2.

We suffered during the past year from an outbreak of Measles, far away in excess of
any previously experienced in the district, no less than 420 cases having been notified, of which
four proved fatal.
The outbreak commenced among the scholars attending the Station Road Schools at
Hampton in the early part of July, and spread with such alarming rapidity that I deemed it
advisable to close these schools for one week. The summer holidays commenced at the close of
this period, so that these schools were closed for five weeks.
Even this extreme measure of closure for five weeks failed to stamp out the disease, and
in October we were face to face with a recrudescence of the epidemic, which affected both Hampton
and Hampton Hill.
I then advised the closure of the whole of the infant schools in the district for a period
of three weeks, and the various Sunday Schools were also closed for a like period by the kind cooperation
of the Clergy and the Managers.
During the periods of closure the schools were thoroughly cleansed and disinfected.
In future Measles will be no longer included in the list of notifiable infectious diseases,
the Council having so decided.
Only one case of Enteric Fever occurred during the year, which was clearly a case
imported from the Continent.