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Year	Diarrhoea/dysentery	Typhoid	All respiratory causes
1875	8	15.1	14.5
1880	21.4	4.8	11.8
1885	6.6	0.8	13.2
1890	5.5	1.2	9.8
1895	5.5	0	8
1900	2.1	0.5	10.6
1905	1.5	0.1	11.4
1910	2.2	0.5	10.3

Source: Geoffrey Rice, 'Public health in Christchurch, 1875–1910: mortality and sanitation.' In Linda Bryder, A healthy country: essays on the social history of medicine in New Zealand. Wellington: Bridget Williams, 1991, p. 96.				



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