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The next table shows the number of deaths from each principal cause for the five years and the proportion per 10,000 of the population.

Typhoid Fever. Deaths from this cause numbered 55 in 1909, against 90 in the previous year, the average for five years being 58. Measles. There was an outbreak of this complaint in 1907, causing 101 deaths. In 1909 only 26 deaths were recorded. Scarlet Fever. The number of deaths from scarlet fever in 1909 was 26. The average annual mortality for the ten years 1900-9 was 35. Whooping-cough. There were 41 deaths in 1909, 42 in 1908, 307 in 1907, and 26 in 1906. Influenza. This was less prevalent in 1909 than in any other year of the period shown, only 47 deaths being recorded. Tuberculosis. Deaths from phthisis numbered 588 or 6-05 per 10,000 of the population, against 607 deaths or 6-42 per 10,000 in 1908, and 612 deaths or 6-66 per 10,000 in 1907. The average for the past ten years was 582, or 6-8 per 10,000. „ Deaths from Rate v , Deaths from Rate * ear - Phthisis. per 10,000. | Phthisis. per 10,000. 1900 .. ..577 7-56 1905 ... ..496 5-70 1901 .. ..596 7-66 1906 .. ..556 6-21 1902 .. 617 7-73 1907 .. .. 612 6-66 1903 .. 570 6-95 1908 .. .. 607 6-42 1904 .. 598 7-08 1909 .. .. 588 6-05 Reference to the following table will show that 340 persons known to have been born in the Dominion died during 1909 from phthisis, a proportion of 5-58 per 10,000 of the estimated native-born white population, and 163 persons resident for fifteen years or over succumbed to the disease.

Nui iber of Deaths. Propori ;ion of 10,000 of lean Population. Cause. I 1905. 1906. 1907. 1908. 1909. 1905. 1906. 1907. 1908. 1909. i j I typhoid fever tfeasles Scarlet fever i¥hooping-cough . . nfluenza Cuberculosis of the lungs . . )ther forms of tuberculosis 45 8 10 3 70 I 496 i 182 I 566 79 119 116 48 12 18 26 132 556 164 623 104 138 106 53 101 25 307 223 612 244 674 87 130 104 90 19 60 42 64 607 232 657 100 136 96 55 26 26 41 47 588 212 711 104 131 131 0-52 0-09 0-11 0-03 0-80 5-70 2-10 6-51 0-91 1-37 1-33 0-54 0-13 0-20 0-29 1-47 6-21 1-83 6-96 1-16 1-54 1-18 0-58 1-10 0-27 3-34 2-43 6-66 2-65 7-33 0-95 1-41 1-13 0-95 0-57 0-20 0-27 0-63 0-27 0-44 0-42 0-68 0-48 6-42 6-05 2-45 2-18 6-95 7-32 1-06 1-07 1-44 1-35 1-02 1-35 Cancer Diabetes Simple meningitis Convulsions of children under 5 years of age Apoplexy J'neumonia Gastritis and enteritis Diarrhceal diseases Cirrhosis of liver Appendicitis 3right's disease and acute nephritis Violence, suicide . . „ accident Dther causes 299 425 379 128 40 53 242 272 444 335 97 J 44 I 69 ! 241 330 572 518 I 314 42 86 268 341 453 478 198 52 81 263 316 458 362 102 47 66 261 344 4-89 4-36 1-47 0-46 0-61 2-79 3-04 4-96 3-74 1-08 0-49 0-77 2-69 3-59 6-22 5-64 3-42 0-46 0-93 2-92 3-61 3-25 4-80 4-71 5-06 3-73 2-20 1-05 0-55 [ 0-48 0-86 0-68 2-78 j 2-69 89 525 4,187 83 575 4,252 102 611 4,663 103 570 4,401 118 660 4,497 1-02 6-03 0-93 6-42 111 6-65 1-09 I 1-21 6-03 ' 6-79 Totals . . i i , 8,061 i : 8,339 10,066 9,043 8,959 92-66 93-11 109-52 95-69 92-19