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per 1,000, the average death-rate during the previous five years being
0.53 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 719, and the number of deaths
recorded was 115, equivalent to an annual death-rate of 0.38 per
1,000, the average death-rate for the preceding five years being 0.30
per 1,000.
Diarrhoea.—Epidemic Diarrhœa, 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 263, as against 383
for the preceding year. This is equivalent to a death-rate of 0.88
per 1,000, the average death-rate for the preceding five years 19091913
being 1.05 per 1,000.
Bronchitis (acute and chronic) caused 500 deaths, or a deathrate
of 1.68 per 1,000, the average rate for the past five years being
1.43 per 1,000, while the deaths from Pneumonia numbered 459,
equal to a death-rate of 1.54 per 1,000 as compared with an average
rate of 1.35 for the preceding five years.
Heart Diseases were responsible for 289 deaths, giving a
death-rate of 0.97 per 1,000, the five years' average rate being 0.99
per 1,000.
Cancer, in which term is included all forms of malignant
growth, showed an increase of 21 above the number of deaths recorded
during 1913, the number for 1914 being 268. The death-rate is equal
to 0.90 per 1,000 as compared with a five years' average rate of 0.86
per 1,000.