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Table III.—Showing the Notified Infectious Diseases mainly arising from Bad Hygienic Conditions —viz., Enteric Fever, Diphtheria, and Tuberculosis, during the Quinquennial Period of Five Years — l902-3 to 1906-7 —continued.

Other infectious diseases which have been present in my district are measles, whooping-cough and diarrhoea; but as I have had notification of only a few cases, lam not aware to what extent they have prevailed. The first seems to have been very rife in Southland, though we have had only a very few cases in Dunedin. When we heard of these, the schools were visited, the children examined, and the sick or suspicious excluded. Diarrhoea prevailed largely, I believe, both in the city and country generally, principally, but not by any means solely, among young children, with no special relation to the milk-supply, but apparently depending on the unusual amount of dry weather we had during the autumn.

Notification by Registrars of Deaths from Infectious Diseases. During the six months since this notification was inaugurated I have received the following returns:—

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)03-4. 1904-5. 1905-6. 1906-7. Total. Average. West Harbour (Population, 1,534.) Enteric fever Diphtheria Tuberculosis Enteric fever Diphtheria Tuberculosis Enteric fever Diphtheria Tuberculosis Enteric fever Diphtheria Tuberculosis Enteric fever Diphtheria Tuberculosis Enterjc fever Diphtheria Tuberculosis Enteric fever Diphtheria Tuberculosis Enteric fever Diphtheria Tuberculosis Enteric fever Diphtheria Tuberculosis Enteric fever Diphtheria Tuberculosis Enteric fever Diphtheria Tuberculosis Enteric fever Diphtheria Tuberculosis Enteric fever Diphtheria Tuberculosis Enteric fever Diphtheria Tuberculosis Enteric fever Diphtheria Tuberculosis 1 1 2 0-4 i i 1 2 4 2 12 0-4 0-8 0-4 2-4 Port Chalmers (Population, 2,120.) 1 3 1 3 1 "2 Peninsula County (Population, 2,460.) 3 '3 Taieri County (Population, 9,227.) 3 3 3 3 1 1 2 4 1 6 1 1 6 1 5 8 5 26 5 7 13 4 1 14 2 0-2 1-0 1-6 1-0 5-2 1-0 1-4 2-6 0-8 0-2 2-8 0-4 Bruce County (Population, 7,545.) 11 1 1 5 3 1 2 6 2 3 2 Clutha County (Population, 7,875.) 1 3 1 1 Waihemo County (Population, 2,524.) 2 1 4 4 1 1 Waikouaiti County (Population, 4,814.) 1 2 1 1 3 1 3 10 2 2 23 13 2-0 0-4 0-4 4-6 2-6 Tuapeka County Population, 7,220.) 14 3 2 5 4 "3 1 1 5 Wallace County (Population, 8,400.) 3 1 18 7 i 2 26 1 1 20 5 29 68 5 22 51 10 4 17 32 3 6 2 1 21 5-2 0-2 0-2 4'0 1-0 5-8 13-6 1-0 4-4 10-2 2-0 0-8 3-4 6-4 0-6 1-2 0-4 0-2 4-2 Invercargill (Population, 11,650.) Southland County (Population, 30,200.) 6 1 1 12 1 7 17 4 4 3 1 3 9 2 15 14 1 6 10 1 1 7 1 10 16 3 5 14 1 5 2 17 Lake County (Population, 3,145.) 3 4 10 1 Vincent County (Population, 5,900.) 1 12 1 16 "5 1 7 3 1 2 2 2 2 Maniototo County (Population, 3,422.) 1 1 7 8 1 5

Disease. Oct. Nov. Deo. Jan. Feb. Maroh. Total. Tuberculosis Pneumonia W hooping-cough Measles Scarlet fever Diarrhoea ... 11 17 3 14 21 9 8 17 6 1 10 8 i 3 "6 65 58 1 3 2 9 "2 8