702 TOWN SANITATION. 
Towns. Enteric | Diphtheria. 
Port Adelaide ... 1 8 
Port Pirie tee 1 1 
Port Augusta... 1 1 
Gawler ©... 0 2 1 
Burraneer sa 5 aes 
Clare oe Sele — 1 
It is unfortunate that no returns exist which would enable a 
tabulated statement to be made of the number of persons attacked 
in these localities. It is, however, useless to offer a surmise on 
the basis of the death-rate; that is, to give a general average. 
The main cause assigned for the presence of enteric fever in most 
of these towns was the return from Broken Hill of residents who 
had either visited the silver mines or had been employed as work- 
men, and had contracted the disease there. Broken Hill, at that 
time, was in a highly insanitary condition, and quite an epidemic 
of typhoid prevailed. The Central Board of Health supports 
this statement of the origin of numerous cases by communications 
from medical health officers who had carefully traced their courses. 
The large number at the Burra was doubtless due to the fact that 
this town is the first on the way from Silverton to Adelaide 
which possessed hospital accommodation for the treatment of 
enteric fever. 
DeatH Rate PER 1000 INHABITANTS. 
Towns. 1884,. |; 1885.; |; 1886. | 1887..| 1888) ite meee 
Port Adelaide ...| 15°99 | 15°6 | 15:6} 18:6 | 12°8 14°5 
Port Pirie a) 33°0) | 2922") 924-40 S227 ea 25°3 
Port Augusta... 39°5 | 30°5 | 31°8 | 36:2 | 342 34:4 
Gawler... Pa lelichsy aie Sey sale Ay |) alley | alors) 14°4 
| Burra ... ...{ 165 | 256) 241 | 126 | 18-4 194 
Clare 700 vee LAS yd Gielk Cae TT Ors 13°5 
