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Feb, 1st - 40-1
„ 8th-39•2-1
„ 15th-43•9-0
„ 22nd-40•8-0
„ 29th-37•6-0
Mar. 7th-43•9-0
„ 14th-46•4-1
„ 21st-45•4-0
„ 28th-49•1-0
Apl. 4th-42•2-0
„ 11th-51•2-0
„ 18th-45•8-1
„ 25th-49•0-0
May 2nd-50•6-0
9th-52•3-0
„ 16th-58•5-0
„ 23rd-55•5-0
„ 30th-55•4-1
June 6th-63•3-0
„ 13th-62•4-0
„ 20th-66-1
,, 27th-61•4-4
Aug. 1st-62•4-10
„ 8th-58•4-10
„ 15th-60•8-4
„ 22nd-59-0
„ 29th-58•1-4
Sep. 5th-58•7-0
„ 12th-59•7-4
„ 19th-58•2-0
„ 26th-52•9-1
Oct. 3rd-53•2-2
„ 10th-52•4-1
„ 17th-46•9-1
„ 24th-42•1-0
„ 31st-41•6-0
Nov. 7th-40-0
„ 14th-42•1-0
„ 21st-42•7-0
„ 28th-39•3-0
Dec. 5th-39•8-0
„ 12th-43•8-0
„ 19th-34•6-0
„ 26th-37•7-0
Poverty, density of the population, maternal neglect,
improper feeding of infants, from ignorance, or necessitated
by the absence of the mothers at factory or other work, all these
have much to do with high diarrhoea mortalities, and are but
slightly under the direct influence of the sanitary authority.
But it should be frankly recognised that diarrhoea is a filth
disease, to be found in excess wherever insanitary conditions
leading to soil pollution exist. The erection of buildings on
made soil is not a common occurrence in our district; for the
past few years vigorous efforts have been made to discover and
remedy defective drains; and the paving of yards and open
spaces adjoining houses, with impermeable materials, is being
insisted upon. Not so much however has been attempted in