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to the acute or infective form of the disease, and fifty
others wese stated to have been caused by Enteritis,
Muco-enteritis, or Gastro-enteritis.
The homes of all these infants were visited by Miss
Harris, the Sanitary Inspector, and as a result of her
enquiries, it was found that of the 68 Diarrhoea cases,
nine were entirely breast fed and twelve were partly
so, twenty-three had cows' milk and twenty-two
condensed milk.
Of those dying from other forms of diarrhœal
diseases—fifty in number —eight were entirely breast
fed and two partly so; ten others were breast fed
until admitted to hospital where they died; nine had
cows' milk, sixteen had condensed milk, and two
patent foods. One mother went to work at a factory
and sent her baby to be cared for by friends ; she did
not know how it was fed, but at the inquest it was
stated to have died from gastro-enteritis and improper
feeding.
The use of feeding bottles with long rubber tubes
appears to be decreasing, as in only nine fatal
instances of diarrhœal disease were these found in use.
Various forms of Tubercular disease caused forty
deaths, a mortality of nine per thousand births. The
homes of nearly all these infants were visited by Miss
Harris. She reports that nine were entirely breast fed
and one other was so fed until its admission to
hospital where it died; ten had cows' milk, four
condensed milk and two patent foods; in the other
cases no information was obtained. In ten out of