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Zymotic Enteritis or Summer Diarrhœa. This Council
made an order requiring the notification of cases of Zymotic
Enteritis or Summer Diarrhœa during the months of June, July,
August and September. The order was duly advertised and came
into operation for the months stated. The sections included in the
order were Sections 55 and 57 of the Public Health (London) Act,
1891, and under the provisions of these sections 162 cases of
Diarrhœa were notified throughout the whole of the Borough, 61
being under one year of age; 87 between one and five; 7 between
five and fifteen; 5 between fifteen and twenty-five; 1 between fortyfive
and sixty-five, and 1 over sixty-five. Eighty of such notifications
related to patients in East Greenwich, 49 in West Greenwich,
18 in St. Nicholas, and 1 in Charlton, of which total number 5
were treated in Institutions in the district. As mentioned on the
previous page in this report, a Female Health Visitor was
appointed, one of whose duties being to visit cases of this disease.
The favourable meteorological conditions had undoubtedly much
to do with the satisfactory returns relating to this disease, for there
were only 31 deaths ascribed thereto, comparing with 159 deaths
last year.
Whooping Cough. As indicated in the last Annual Report,
the consent of the Local Government Board was desired to our
proposal to make Whooping Cough a notifiable disease, this consent
was given, for the period of five years from and including
1st June, 1912, Sections 55, 57, 66 and 68 of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, and applied to the disease, and, accordingly,
under these provisions, 525 cases were notified, 84 being under one
year of age, 280 from one to five; 15 from five to fifteen, and 1
between twenty-five and forty-five. The districts concerned being
East Greenwich, 316; West Greenwich, 111; St. Nicholas, 54;
Charlton, 33; and Kidbrooke, 11. Each of these cases were visited
and leaflets and instructions left together with verbal advice respecting
the isolation and care of the patient, and at the conclusion
of the illness the usual disinfection was carried out. By this
means it is hoped to educate the public as to the seriousness of the
disease, and to endeavour to, as far as possible, prevent the spread