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Causes of Deaths
Of the 164 deaths registered, four occurred
in the Cottage Hospital, five in the Workhouse,
and one in the Isolation Hospital. Seventy-six
were males and 88 females. Forty were under
one year of age, and 24 were 75 and upwards.
There died of phthisis 15, of bronchitis,
pneumonia and pluerisy 15, of heart diseases 19,
of cancer 10, of violence five. There were 16
inquests.
Zymotic
Diseases.
The deaths from the principal Zymotic
diseases were nine; being two from measles, three
from whooping cough, one from diphtheria and
three from diarrhoea. There were also three
deaths from influenza. The Zymotic death rate
works out at 0.69 per thousand. The following
are some particulars respecting the various diseases
of this group.
Small Pox
No cases of this disease.
This disease is happily and necessarily an
extremely rare one to occur in Surbiton, unless as
an imported case contracted elsewhere, for the
water supply is good and not liable to pollution,
and all the houses are drained excepting Minniedale
and possibly a few others.
Typhoid Fever.
A case in 1897 was reported as due to
oysters, but most of the other cases in the last few
years had contracted the disease abroad or elsewhere.
This year two cases were notified me on
the same day, April 15th. Both were children,
one aged 13 years and the other one year and four
months. They were of separate families, but living
in a row of cottages within a few doors of each
other. I at once visited the houses and made
enquiries of the parents, thinking that some cause
common to both cases would be found. The
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