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three preceding diseases, the mixed and other cases received during
the year were as follows:—
Re-admitted cases 2
Diphtheria and Measles 1
„ „ Scarlet Fever 4
Scarlet Fever and Whooping Cough 2
Chicken Pox 1
Cerebro Spinal Meningitis 2
Measles 2
Whooping Cough 1
Making a total of 15
Measles.—The number of cases reported by the School
Attendance Officers was 472, as against 3,026 during the previous
year. The deaths numbered 73, making an annual death-rate of 0.24
per 1,000, the average death-rate during the previous five years being
0 69 per 1,000.
Whooping Cough.—This disease frequently becomes
epidemic when Measles is prevalent, and also occurs as a sequelae
of that affection. The number of cases brought to the knowledge
of the Medical Officer of Health was 265, and the number of deaths
recorded was 51, equivalent to an annual death-rate of 0.17 per
1,000, the average death-rate for the preceding five years being 0.36
per 1,000.
Diarrhoea.—Epidemic Diarrhoea, as a rule, is always responsible
for the greater part of the zymotic death-rate, and generally accounts
for a considerable share in the death-roll of young children, in that
the number of deaths from this disease were 383, as against only 111
for the preceding year. This is equivalent to a death-rate of 1.28