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numerous during September ; 42 of the 66 deaths occurred during August, September
and October Amongst infants under one year there were 54 deaths ; eight were
of children aged from one to five years, one of a child aged between five and ten
years, two were of persons aged between 25 and 45 years, and one was of a person
over 75 years of age. The diarrhoea death-rate was 0.58 per 1,000 inhabitants, as
compared with 0.69 in 1909, 0.82 in 1908, 064 in 1907, and 1.68 in 1906. The
mortality from diarrhoea was therefore much lower than usual, probably largely to
be accounted for by meteriological conditions, the summer being on the whole,
favourable to a low prevalence of diarrhoea.
The mortality from diarrhoea amongst infants under one year in Shoreditch
during 1910, was at the rate of 15.0 per 1,000 births registered during the year,
as compared with 15.9 in 1909, 23 3 in 1908, 15 3 in 1907, 40.3 in 1906, and 306 in
1905. Similar rates for the Metropolis were 8.0 in 1910, 9'9 in 1909, 14.4 in 190S,
9.2 in 1907, 27.3 in 1906, and 20.7 in 1905. The figures for previous years are
contained in the Annual Report for 1905.
The enquiries made by the Health Visitor during the year as regards deaths of
infants under the age of eight months (vide Appendix, p. 82) show, as noted in
previous years that the great majority are of infants artificially fed.
The deaths from diarrhoea in London numbered 1,368, as compared with 1,577
in 1909, 2,592 in 1908, 1,563 in 1907. and 4,507 in 1906. The deaths were most
numerous in August, September and October. The diarrhoea death-rate for the
Metropolis was 0'28 per 1,000, as compared with 0.32 in 1909, 0.54 in 1908, 0.32 in
1907, 0.98 in 1906, 0.72 in 1905, 1.07 in 1904, 0.64 in 1903, and 0.53 in 1902.
MEASLES.
The deaths from measles numbered 80, as compared with 127 in 1909. It is
however to be noted, that the number of cases coming under treatment by the Poor
Law Medical Officers considerably exceeded that of 1909, moreover, a far larger
number of cases came under our notice through the school authorities; there is,
therefore, reason for believing that, notwithstanding the smaller number of deaths
n 1910, the disease was really more prevalent than in 1909. The cases seem to
have been fairly equally distributed throughout the year, but were above the average
for the year during May, August and November. The deaths were most numerous
during the months of March, April, May, June, July, November and December,
The whole of the deaths from measles were of children under 10 years of age; 21
were under one year, 57 were aged between one and five years, and two were aged
from five to ten years; 38 were of males and 42 of females. The measles death-rate