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Diarrhoea.
During 1911, the number of deaths from diarrhoea registered
as belonging to the Borough of Battersea was 159 as compared
with 59 in 1910.
Seventy-eight of these deaths were registered as being due
to epidemic or zymotic enteritis. The death-rate was -94 per
1,000 or -31 above the decennial average -63. Of the 159 deaths
145 (i.e. 92 per cent.) were of children under five years, and 113
(i.e. 71 per cent.) were of children under one year of age. During
1910 of the 59 deaths from diarrhoea, 47 (i.e. 79 per cent.) were of
infants under one year old.
The number of deaths and the death-rate in the sub-districts
in 1911, 1910 and 1909, were as follows :—

In the next table are set out the deaths registered in each of
the four quarterly periods in 1911, 1910 and 1909 :—

Of the 113 deaths of infants under one year old from diarrhoea
or epidemic enteritis, 98 occurred in the third quarter of the year,
distributed as follows in the three sub-districts of the Borough—
East Battersea, 44 ; North-West Battersea, 49; South-West
Battersea, 5.
The next Table gives the age-periods at which these 98 infants
died during 1911 :—