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Deaths from Diarrhœa.
12 of these deaths took place in the three months July to
September.
Age incidence.—Of the 13 cases, 10 were under one year, 2 were
between one and two years of age, while one was a person over 60 years
of age.
10 deaths were investigated, i.e., 8 of infants, and 2 of children
between the ages of one and two years.
Manner of feeding.—The 8 infants had all been fed by a proper bottle.
3 by the obnoxious long tubed bottle.
2 children had been fed with cow's milk and barley water.
1 child „ „ water.
1 „ „ „ lime water.
1 „ „ Nestlé's milk and barley water.
1 „ „ „ lime water.
1 „ „ Benger's food.
1 „ „ miscellaneous diet.
Previous health.—Of the 8 infants: in 3 cases the children were
stated to have been previously delicate; in 5 cases the children were
stated to have been healthy until the diarrhœa set in. The two
children over one year were both stated to have been delicate from birth.
Duration of illness.—Of the 10 cases, 4 died within three days of
the onset, 2 within a week, 2 in fourteen days; while in two cases the
illness lasted several months.
Of the 10 houses visited, in only 2 were other cases of diarrhœa
found to have occurred. The houses were in each case inspected.
Insanitary conditions were discovered in 6 out of 10 houses. In 2
instances the homes were found in an exceptionally dirty and neglected
state.
Influenza.
11 deaths resulted from this disease, as compared with 12 in 1903.
Of the total deaths, 2 occurred to persons between 1 and under 5 years
of age, 2 to persons between 25 and 65 years of age, and 7 to persons of
65 years of age or upwards.