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Puerperal Fever
Four notifications of Puerperal Fever were received during the
year, two of which proved fatal.
Infantile Mortality
The number of Infants who died during the year under 1 year
of age was 99, and is represented by a ratio of 82 22 to every
thousand births registered, being a decrease of 34.91 from last year,
and 46.23 of the average for the past 10 years.
This satisfactory result is due to several reasons, such as to the
lesser number of deaths from such diseases as Whooping Cough,
Pneumonia and Enteritis, but chiefly to the meteorological conditions
which have prevailed. The past 2 or 3 years have been comparatively
sunless ones, and the summers distinguished by the total absence of
any spell of hot or extremely dry weather.
Isolation Hospital
During the year 136 patients were removed to the Hospital, 91
being notified as suffering from scarlet fever, 38 Diphtheria, and 7
from typhoid fever. There were 3 deaths in the Hospital, 1 from
scarlet fever, 1 from diphtheria, and 1 from typhoid fever.
The percentage of admissions to notifications in the 3 classes of
disease were as follows:—Scarlet fever 80%, diphtheria 65%, and
typhoid fever 46%.
The following is a return of the Medical Officer for the Isolation
Hospital, Dr. Clapham, showing particulars of the patients treated in
the Hospital during the year.