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The 3 deaths were from enteric or typhoid, and
occurred at adult ages.
There were 21 notifications, and 16 removals to hospitals,
where three died.
DIARRHCEAL ORDER.
7.—Diarrhcea (decennial average 22.5).
14 infants died under 1 year, and 3 between 1 and 5
years, a total of 17 children's deaths; as usual, the heaviest
of this mortality occurred during the summer and autumn
months.
Cholera.
At different times during the year Russia, Austria,
Constantinople, Egypt, the Levant, and other places were
affected by Asiatic cholera. On the 15th January a steamship
from the Black Sea came into Holyhead under stress
of weather, reporting during the voyage that ten cases of
so-called diarrhoea had occurred, besides three fatal cases
of undoubted Asiatic cholera. The Local Health authorities
adopted the necessary precautions, and no case of
the disease was imported into this country.
In July I received a communication from the London
County Council informing me that Dr. Klein, as in former
years, was prepared to examine bacteriologically material
from any case of suspected Asiatic cholera which might
occur in the Metropolis.
The Medical Officer of the Local Government Board
reproduces in his annual report, on account of their significance
four conclusions which were arrived at by Dr.