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through the community. Influenza is not in itself a very fatal disease; as a rule it is
only where complicated by acute inflammation of some of the internal organs of the
body that danger and death ensue. The proper treatment of a case of influenza is
that, as soon as the patient is affected, no attempt should be made to fight against
the disease, the invalid's couch is the only safe place under the circumstances, and
without delay medical aid should be summoned, as it is only under the skilled
surveillance of a physician that the danger of exposing the body to chills at too
early a date, and the consequent dangerous sequalæ of influenza may be avoided.
8. Appended are Tabular Statements of the Sickness and Mortality in the
District, during the year 1891. The first three tables are in the form required by
the Board of Supervision. The fourth is a detailed Statement shewing the Births
and Deaths in the various Registration Districts into which the Registrar-General
has Sub-divided the District.
The local Registrars cannot be too highly commended for the unanimous way in
which they have come forward to supply the data for those tables.

JOHN T. GRAHAM, M.D.,
Chief District Medical Officer
February 29th, 1892.

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TABULAR STATEMENTS
OF
Sickness and Mortality
IN THE
WESTERN DISTRICT.
1891.

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