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7
SMALL POX.
No death from Small Pox has been recorded during the year.
MEASLES.
Measles was again epidemic during the year, more especially in
the months of March, April, May and June, when the deaths were
respectively 28, 40, 33 and 31; the mortality in 1890 being 185, a
number slightly in excess of that recorded in the year 1889 (180).
WHOOPING COUGH.
Whooping Cough occasioned 200 deaths during 1890, the number
being considerably above that of last year, when the deaths from this
cause were exceptionally low. [The deaths from Whooping Cough
were 112 in 1889, 230 in 1888, 238 in 1887, and 205 in 1886.] The
number of deaths was 27 in April, 22 in May, 28 in June, and 21 in
July, after which the numbers gradually decreased.
SCARLET FEVER.
Twenty-nine deaths only were recorded as due to Scarlet Fever
(a number considerably below the average), as against 32 in 1889, and
50 in each of the vears 1888 and 1887.
DIPHTHERIA.
Diphtheria occasioned 47 deaths, as against 44 in 1889, 35 in 1888,
27 in 1887, and 54 in 1886. I would here remark that I have
uniformly had to report an increased number of deaths from Diphtheria,
when there is a decrease in the mortality from Scarlet Fever.