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(C) Issuing of special leaflets or posters during the summer,
dealing with (1) precautions to be taken against summer
diarrhœa, (2) the danger of the areas of infection and the
contamination of food by flies, (3) the importance of
removing at once all accumulations of refuse and other
offensive matters from the neighbourhood of dwellings,
(4) the value of cleanliness generally, &c.
(a) Feeding of Infants and young children at the Municipal
Milk Depôt, 66, York Road.
Influenza.
The epidemic, which began in the third quarter of 1918 and
was at its height during the fourth quarter of 1918, continued during
the first quarter of 1919 (causing, during that quarter, a total of
240 corrected deaths), considerably diminishing during the second
quarter of 1919 (34 corrected deaths), and still further diminishing
during the third and fourth quarters of 1919 (4 and 15 corrected
deaths respectively), making a total of 293 corrected deaths for the
whole year 1919. Of these 293 deaths, 24, i.e., 8.2 per cent., were
in persons under 5 years of age, and 5, i.e., 1.7 per cent., in persons
under 1 year of age. The highest mortality was in the age-period
25 to 40 years, viz., 82, i.e., 27.9 per cent.,whilst the age-periods 45
to 60 years and over 60 years also suffered severely, viz., 54 and 73,
i.e., 18.4 per cent. and 24.9 per cent. respectively, as was the case
during 1918.