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P. R. died from epidemic diarrhoea at 7 months of age,
had suffered from the disease a month before fatal
attack.
H. F. (5 months) never well since vaccination, abscess
formed.
A. S. (4 months) died a few days after vaccination.
A. G. (8 months), a premature child, and weak from
birth.
J. M. (2 months), R. S (5 months), H. B. (3 months),
E. O. (12 days), W. H. (4 months), P. (2 months),
E. B. (4 months), W. T. (6 months), E. W. (8
months), A. F. (9 months), L. L. (22 days), were
all frail children from birth and suffering from
wasting, &c.
W. B. (6 weeks) and L. R. (3 weeks), suffered from
abscesses.
E W. (7 months), two children had "consumptive bowels,"
and E. W. had possibly contracted the disease from
them. Three cases of such personal infection were
met with, two from children and one from the mother
who was suffering from diarrhœa.
J. P. (10 months) was always liable to convulsions.
E. B. (6 months) was under the hospital for Ophthalmia
and eventually died in hospital from epidemic
diarrhoea.
F. V. was a case of gross neglect and much dirt and
filthiness at home.
J. W. (9 months) was much weakened by teething.
Four further cases of fatal diarrhoea occurred immediately after
weaning in the summer quarter.
Methods of Prevention.
1.—There appears now to be almost indisputable evidence that
the chief cause of epidemic diarrhœa in infants is inappropriate
feeding. If infants were breast fed, and therefore nourished on