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4. The notification of diarrhoea during June, July, and August
in children up to 5 years of age. Such notified cases would be
visited from the health department and measures taken to see
that the medical treatment was carried out in accordance with the
doctor's instructions. The home conditions and environment
would also be dealt with. At the present time, the earliest
information of these cases of diarrhæa is received on the death
sheets, and is obviously too late for the purposes of saving life.
5. The drafting and distribution of leaflets on infant management,
written in Italian. There is a large colony of Italian
inhabitants in the borough whose mothers do not read or understand
English.
6. The provision of home nursing for lying-in mothers by
subscribing to the funds of one or more of the maternity institutions
in Finsbury.
7. The co-ordinating of all the activities—municipal, official
and voluntary—which are concerned with infant welfare in the
borough.
8. The holding of occasional conferences between official and
voluntary bodies for the better correlation of their operations and
for the improvement of their efficiency.
CANCER.
In 1914, death was accredited to Cancer in 103 persons, of whom
49 were males and 54 females. The death rate was 1-237 per
1,000. The deaths in previous years from 1901 upward were 72,
72, 92, 79, 65, 84, 86, 87, 88, 79, 81, 86, and 93 respectively.
The following tables show the deaths distributed according to sex
and age:—