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hand-fed children under one year of age, living in unsanitary
dwellings on a polluted soil, which reaches the requisite
temperature during the hot summer months. It has been
proved, experimentally, that there is always a sudden rise in
the mortality from diarrhoea when the temperature of the soil
at a depth of four feet from the surface reaches 56°.
The total number of notifications of infectious diseases
this year (53 weeks) have been 126, excluding second notifications
of the same cases. They were distributed among the
following diseases:—
Scarlet Fever 59
Diphtheria 37
Typhoid Fever 9
Erysipelas 21
In 1893 there were as many as 219 notifications, and in
1894, 83; and last year there were only 63. This District
this year has had about the same amount of notifiable disease
as the rest of London for an equivalent population.