NUMBER OF INHABITANTS. _Month._ _Men._ _Women._ _Children._ _Total._ June 5,116 9,646 17,953 32,715 July 5,351 11,213 20,132 36,696 August 5,826 13,381 24,415 43,622 September 6,089 14,140 25,118 45,347 October 5,906 14,471 24,929 45,306 —————— Average 40,737 NUMBER OF DEATHS. _Month._ _Men._ _Women._ _Children._ _Total._ _Annual death-rate._ June 32 75 182 289 106·0 July 50 69 369 488 159·5 August 30 82 510 622 171·1 September 43 153 885 1,081 286·0 October 58 133 1,329 1,520 402·6 ————— Average 235·6 All told, no less than 19,600 persons (14,894 children and 4,706 adults) died in the Concentration Camps up to March 1902; that is, about one-fifth of the total number of inhabitants died in a period of about fifteen months. As indicated by the above tables, the children suffered more severely than the adults. The principal causes of the high mortality among the children were measles and pneumonia; since the grownup Boers had never experienced an attack of measles in their childhood, they too, even the very old men, contracted the disease and many of them succumbed to it. The prevalence of pneumonia can be explained on the ground that the temperature fluctuated greatly in the course of the winter, and the nights, in particular, were extremely cold. Whooping-cough, varicella, mumps, and diphtheria were prevalent in all the camps, and typhoid fever, which, as remarked above, is endemic in many parts of South Africa, was very common; so also were diarrhoea and dysentery.