( 5 ° ) 
distribution corresponds approximately with the smaller rainfall in the first 
four months, and the much larger rainfall in summer and autumn. I he total 
number of wet days is much less during the first four months than at any 
other period of the year, and the average temperature is less. On the other 
hand, as seen in Table III., the number of cases treated by the local medical 
men appears greater in the first quarter of the year. 
Table I. 
Mortality per 1,000 from some of the Principal Causes of Death for 1904- 
(. Medical Officers Report taken prom Report op Registrar General , Belize , 1905). 
Principal Causes 
of Death. 
Belize 
District. 
Corosal 
District. 
Orange 
Walk 
District. 
Stann 
Creek 
District. 
Toledo 
District. 
Cayo 
District. 
The 
Colony. 
Malarial Fevers 
Dysentery 
Phthisis Pulmon. 
Nervous Diseases 
Circulatory „ 
Respiratory ,, 
Intestinal „ 
3 ' 34 i 
0 477 
1 841 
2932 
°"954 
1-968 
2 ' 59 I 
12-771 
1- 146 
0982 
2- 619 
0- 163 
1- 309 
2- 45 6 
1 1-842 
i' 53 2 
o '»35 
2 ' 5°7 
0-189 
0-835 
o'83S 
5-280 
0-960 
1 "68o 
0- 720 
1 "68o 
1- 68o 
12-150 
0639 
0-213 
I *065 
0-852 
2-344 
2-984 
10-605 
2-052 
I 026 
0-342 
0-684 
0- 684 
1- 710 
8-117 
0-957 
1 260 
2-167 
0- 554 
1- 436 
2*142 
Death Rate 
24-482 
28-981 
23-684 
20-643 
27-497 
23-268 
24-93! 
Table II. 
BELIZE HOSPITAL. 
Monthly Return of Cases Grouped under Malaria for \ears 1901, 1 90 2 , 1903, 1904. 
( Assistant Colonial Surgeon s Report.) 
C = Cases. D = Deaths. 
Months. 
Jan. 
Feb. 
Mar. 
April. 
May. 
June. 
July. 
Aug. 
Sept. 
Oct. 
Nov. 
Dec. 
Yearly. 
Total. 
Diseases. 
C. D. 
C. D. 
C. D. 
C. D. 
C. D. 
C. D. 
C. D. 
C. D. 
C. D. 
C. D. 
C. D.C. D. 
C. D. 
C. 
D. 
Malarial Fever. 
1901 (a) Intermittent 
4 1 
4 - 
2 - 
3 - 
3 " 
5 - 
5 “ 
I I “ 
10 I 
9 “ 
9 1 
65 3 
(k) Remittent 
I I 
3 - 
1 ~ 
I - 
I - 
7 t 
> 80 
5 
(<-) Malarial 
( 
cachexia 
2 - 
2 I 
2 - 
I “ 
I ” 
8 1 
Malarial Fever. 
1902 (a) Remittent 
I - 
... 
... 
I I 
... 
I I 
2 - 
5 2 
(/>) Intermittent 
2 - 
I I 
3 - 
6 1 
3 - 
3 “ 
3 - 
I - 
5 - 
9 1 
2 - 
8 1 
46 4 
59 
6 
(c) Febricula 
I - 
r - 
I - 
... 
I - 
I - 
1 - 
6 - 
(d) Cachexia 
1 ~ 
I - 
2 - 
I 
Malarial Fever. 
1903 (a) Remittent 
I - 
... 
... 
I - 
I ” 
3 1 
2 2 
8 3 
) 
{/>) Intermittent 
2 - 
3 - 
2 - 
6 - 
8 - 
7 - 
7 - 
9 1 
7 - 
7 - 
9 1 
67 2 
> 79 
6 
(e) Cachexia 
I “ 
3 1 
4 1 
) 
Malarial Fever. 
1904 (a) Remittent 
2 - 
- I 
2 - 
... 
I - 
2 - 
I I 
I I 
1 1 
10 4 
) 
(k) Intermittent 
7 - 
6 2 
8 - 
1 1 2 
12 I 
8 - 
10 - 
14 - 
9 - 
6 - 
7 - 
8 1 
106 6 
1 128 
1 4 
(e) Cachexia 
. . , 
- I 
1 - 
... 
2 - 
- I 
1 - 
2 2 
1 - 
7 4 
| 
(d) Febricula 
I ~ 
I - 
I - 
1 - 
I - 
... 
5 - 
1 
Total ... 
17 2 
18 
15 1 
24 3J29 3 
28 - 
3 ° - 
32 i 42 3 
36 3 
33 342 8 
1 
