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Causes of Death.
Of these 116 deaths 46 are males and 70 females, 27 were
70 years and upwards and 22 were under one year of age.
There died of phthisis 5, including 1 in the County Asylum,
of other lung diseases 15, of heart disease 12, of cancer 9,
of violence 6 (including 4 suicides), of influenza 5. There
were 10 inquests.
Births.
There is an increase in the number of births from 186
in 1893 to 210 in 1894, of whom 109 were boys and 101
girls. The birth rate is therefore 20.3 per thousand. The
deaths of infants were in the ratio of 104.7 per thousand
births registered.
The following are some particulars respecting the
various diseases of the zymotic group:—
Small Pox.
No cases of this disease were reported.
Enteric Fever.
There were twelve cases and four deaths. This is a
larger number than has ever been recorded before, but an
examination of the history of the cases will show that the
majority have no possible local causation. Of the 12 cases
notified, 3 were Kingston ones admitted into the Cottage
Hospital and treated there, where one died, consequently
that particular case is excluded from consideration
altogether, as owing to its having occurred in a public
institution it was referred to the district from whence it
came, but the notification has to remain. The first case
was that of a boy of seven years of age on Surbiton Hill, in
February, the premises were duly inspected and the report
by the Sanitary Inspector was "I do not find any serious
sanitary defects, all the connections and arrangements are
outside the house, but the sink waste requires more
thoroughly disconnecting from drain." The patient however
died. The second case did not happen until June, at
the Cottage Hospital, it came from Canbury Park Road,
Kingston, and was the fatal case alluded to above, the
diagnosis not being made until after admission; the third