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Deaths specified as to causes:—
Measles 1
Whooping Cough 2
Epidemic Influenza 4
Diarrhoea 2
Enteritis 3
Septic Diseases 1
Phthisis 3
Other Tubercular Diseases 4
Cancer 1
Bronchitis 3
Pneumoniam 10
Pleurisy 1
Alcoholism 1
Premature Birth 3
Heart Disease 3
All other causes 13
In reviewing the different causes of death, I should like
to draw attention to the diminished number of deaths from
Diarrhœa as compared with last year. We may rightly I
think, attribute this improvement to the greater frequency in
the collection of house refuse between June 1st and Sept.
30th, which, on my recommendation, the Council adopted last
summer, and to the distribution of leaflets calling the attention
of parents and others to the importance of early treatment
in the summer Diarrhœa of infants and young children. This
result is very satisfactory, and the Council will do well to
make this arrangement a permanent one.
Seven deaths are attributable to Tubercular diseases. It
is desirable that this disease should be made notifiable to the
Sanitary Authority, so that proper measures may be taken to
prevent the conveyance of the infection to the healthy. Last
year, in writing on this important subject, I urged the need for
boiling or sterilizing all milk before using, and the thorough
cooking of meat—a process which detracts nothing from its
nutritive value if the juices are served with it. There should
be established in every county institutions for the special
treatment of this disease, the chief manifestation of which is
Phthisis or Consumption. It is practically a preventible
disease, and for the future advantage of the race every
possible effort ought to be made to stamp it out from amongst
us. It is known to be a contributory cause of Idiocy,
Imbecility and Epilepsy, in the offsprings of Tubercular
parents. There has been a remarkable increase in the number
of the Insane during the last few years, and therefore
special efforts are called for to stamp out all the known
preventible causes of this terrible malady, such as