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for a period of three weeks with apparent advantage,
but died suddenly after three days' illness, on
ist September, from diarrhoea and sickness (undoubtedly
epidemic diarrhoea).
(9) E. S., male, aged 1 month, was put upon the depot
milk on 18th August, 1906, suffering at the time
from diarrhoea and sickness. The infant died on
24th August from diarrhoea (probably epidemic
diarrhoea), having been fed upon the milk for one
week only.
It will be noted that the nine deaths occurred in infants
who had been fed upon the depot milk for periods varying
from a minimum three days to a maximum 20 weeks, and it
is clear, therefore, that, for purposes of correct statistics,
at least three of these deaths (Nos. 2, 3 and 9) cannot fairly
be included amongst the depot returns—the infants being
fed upon the milk only three, three, and seven days respectively,
and moreover being seriously ill when put upon the
milk (one being moribund).
7.—Comparative mortality rates amongst the infants and
children fed upon the Milk.
To be statistically correct, only those infants and children
should be tabulated who have been fed upon depot milk for
continuous periods of 13 weeks and over—a total of 27,
of whom two died (from epidemic diarrhoea, which was