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105
76 per cent., of infants under one year of age. During 1906
149 deaths from diarrhœa were registered, of which 108, or 72
per cent., were of infants under one year of age.

In July the Health Committee authorised the publication of
a leaflet, drawn up by the Medical Officer of Health, on the
subject of summer diarrhœa, and its prevention. A copy of
this leaflet was, by order of the Committee, distributed to
every house in the Borough.
The year 1907 was very unfavourable for epidemic
diarrhœa. In the County of London the deaths from diarrhœa
during the year were less than half the corrected average
number. The highest incidence from epidemic diarrhœa
occurs in the third quarter, but in 1907 this was not the case
in Battersea, the highest number occurring in the fourth
quarter, as will be seen by contrasting the deaths registered
in each of the four quarters in 1906 and 1907.
The number of deaths from diarrhœa, 47, was the lowest
ever recorded in the Old Parish or Borough, being no less
than 98 below the average for the ten years. The same remarkable
decrease was evident all over the country. In London the
death-rate from diarrhœa varied from .09 per 1,000 in