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Taking the whole of the deaths registered during 1914, the
diarrhœa death-rate per 10,000 population in the Inner Registration
Sub-Districts and Inner Wards is 9.3, as compared with 4.7 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.
16 deaths (4 in infants under 1 year of age) were registered
during 1914 from "enteritis." During recent years there has been
a marked improvement in the diagnosis of deaths from diarrhœa 1
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 diarrhœa, 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 1914 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