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from Infantile Diarrhœa is largely responsible for this rise.
During 1911 there were 64 deaths from this disease, as
compared with 7 in 1910. The hot, dry summer was in a
great degree responsible for this marked increase, and but
for the Notification of Births Act, and the measures taken
under that Act, I have no doubt the total number of deaths
under this head would have been larger still. (As will be seen
from the table of causes of death at the end of this section,
the next disease responsible for the largest total number of
deaths is Heart Disease. The total number registered for
the year from this cause was 68, and this fact opens up the
question as to whether the conditions of modern life, by increasing
heart strain, are responsible for this large number,
or whether the greater accuracy of diagnosis and consequent
registration have something to do with it. Cancer is also
responsible for a large number of deaths, the total number
registered for the year from this disease being 58.)
There is one other class of disease I should like to call
attention to, and that is the Tubercle class. Here 70 deaths
were registered from various forms of Tubercle, and this is
essentially a preventible disease.
Zymotic Death-rate.
The number of deaths registered from the seven principal
zymotic diseases for the year 1911 was 103, giving a
zymotic death-rate of 1.3 per thousand. A reference to the
detailed list below will show where and how this increase
has occurred.