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living on and off in a house in which all the sanitary
arrangements were found to be most satisfactory.
All three made good recoveries.
Measles.—But few cases, and no deaths.
Towards the latter part of the year, however,
cases were becoming more frequent, together with
a proportion of mumps and German measles, with
every prospect of a considerable increase in these
latter. It should be borne in mind that an attack
of German measles affords no protection to a
child from ordinary measles or scarlet fever.
Diarrhœa.—Only one death was registered
under this heading, whereas four were returned
as "enteritis," thus rather leaving open to doubt
whether or no some or all of these four were or
were not strictly speaking diarrhoea, due possibly
to improper feeding, a most common cause,
which in its turn may have set up enteritis.
Assuming them all to have meant to indicate
forms of diarrhoea, they would amount to only 5,
and this will contrast for purposes of comparison
with 1906, when there were 15, and that was the
year of a hot and dry summer, especially so in
September, when most of these deaths occurred.
Diarrhoeal mortality is greater in hot and dry seasons
and less in wet seasons. The summer last year
was, generally speaking, wet and cool, and though
there were hot spells, we were never very long
without rain. Rainfall has a direct favourable
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