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Two deaths were registered as due to the disease.
Whooping Cough.
Five cases of this disease were notified by the
school teachers as compared with 36 for the
previous year. Seven children were kept from school on account
of this disease.
There were five deaths registered as due to this disease ; all of
these occurred below five years of age.
Chicken Pox.
Two cases of this disease were notified by school
teachers and one by the Libr arian. Enquiries
as to vaccination and isolation were made in every instance. Two
children were kept from school on account of this ailment.
Mumps.
Two cases of this affection were notified.
Diarrhœa.
Seventeen deaths were registered as due to
diarrhœa, chiefly during the hot weather. Fourteen
of the deaths were below one year of age. The number of
deaths from this complaint in 1905 was ten.
Tuberculosis.
During the year there were 34 deaths registered
in the Borough as due to Phthisis, and 11 to
other tubercular diseases, a total of 45 deaths due to tuberculosis.
The number of deaths registered as due to this disease in 1905 was
36, and in 1904 the number was 61.
Of the total number of deaths in the Borough for 1906 this disease
claimed 12 per cent., as compared with 7 per cent., for 1905
and 15 per cent., for 1904.
Of the 45 deaths, 31 occured between the ages of 25 and 65 years.
During the year there have been 14 cases of tuberculosis notified
voluntarily by medical practitioners. The houses of these patients,
as well as of those certified as suffering from this disease in the
monthly returns received from the Clerk to the Guardians, have
been visited and advice given to the inmates as to precautionary