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In 175 cases the patients resided in houses, the sanitary conditions of which were
satisfactory. In 107 cases insanitary conditions of major or minor importance were
discovered
In 39 instances, there were histories of throat illness amongst other persons living
in the houses where the patients resided.
DIARRHŒA.
This disorder, which is so fatal in infancy, was prevalent in Shoreditch from the
beginning of July to well on in September, and caused a marked rise in the parish
death-rate. From the middle of July to the end of August the deaths in Shoreditch
from diarrhœa averaged 24 per week. Diarrhœa was generally prevalent during July,
August and September, and caused a marked elevation in the metropolitan death rate
during the month of August.
Excluding 41 deaths registered as due to enteritis, the deaths from diarrhœa
numbered 211, of which 162 were of children under one year, 33 of children aged
between one and fifteen years, and 16 were of persons aged forty-five years and
upwards.
The death-rate due to this disorder was 1.74 per 1000 inhabitants.
The deaths due to diarrhœa in the Metropolis, not including those attributed to
enteritis, amounted to 4,099, of which over 3,000 occurred during the months of
July and August. The metropolitan diarrhœa death-rate was 0.91 per 1000
inhabitants.
In the subjoined table are contained, for the years 1892-97, the numbers of
deaths from diarrhœa, together with the death-rates due to this cause in Shoreditch
and London.

From the above figures it will be seen that the variations from year to year in the
mortality from diarrhœa in Shoreditch accompany variations in the diarrhœa mortality