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Taking the whole of the cases registered, during 1913,
the diarrhœa death-rate per 10,000 population in the Inner
Registration Sub-Districts and Inner Wards is 9.5, as
compared with 2.8 for the Outer Registration Sub-Districts
and Outer Wards—a difference which is generally found to
obtain, and which is understood when the crowded state of
the Inner Registration Sub-Districts and Inner Wards is
remembered.
24 deaths (10 in infants under 1 year of age)
were registered during 1913 from "enteritis." During
recent years there has been a marked improvement
in the diagnosis of deaths from diarrhoeal diseases, so that,
to obtain comparable figures, attention should be paid not
only to diarrhœa deaths certified, but also to all deaths
arising from diseases of an enteritic nature, i.e., those in
which the intestines are affected.
Practical measures were again taken to prevent epidemic
diarrhœa and other infectious diseases in infants and to
promote hygienic conditions in the feeding of infants,
systematic visiting of houses wherein births were notified
under the Notification of Births Act, 1907, and wherein
deaths were registered as having occurred from epidemic
diarrhoea, the teaching of proper feeding and care of infants
by the Council's female staff, the work of the Milk Depot
and the Infants' consultations in connection therewith, etc.,
may be tabulated as some of the measures taken during
1913 with success. In addition, a special leaflet was again
issued during the year, dealing with precautions against
summer diarrhœa in connection with irregular and improper
feeding of infants and the value of the milk depot in
relation thereto, the danger of contamination of food by
flies, the importance of removing at once all accumulations