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Whooping Cough.
The deaths ascribed to whooping cough in 1911, 28
in number, were fewer than in any previous year, the
average for the previous ten years being 58. The
death-rate from the disease in Fulham was 0.18 against
0.23 in the County of London.

Of the deaths 211 were of children under two years
of age representing a death-rate of 1.38 per 1,000 of the
population against 1.18 per 1,000 in the County of
London, while of the metropolitan boroughs ten had
higher rates than Fulham, compared with nine in 1910
and four in 1909.
As the result: of enquiries respecting the deaths from
diarrhoea of 59 children under six months of age it was
found that only one was breast fed. Of the others 22
were fed on cow's milk, 29 on condensed milk, and 6 on
some form of patent food.
Prevention of Diarrhæa.
In August last the Local Government Board issued
a circular to local authorities respecting the excessive
child mortality from diarrhoea and enteritis accompanying
the hot and dry summer. In it the Board emphasised
the importance of exact advice being given as to the
feeding and management of children and more generally
as to preventing the exposure of their food to contamination
from decomposing organic matter. In this connection