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Zymotic Enteritis or Summer Diarrhcea. This Council
made an order requiring the notification of cases of Zymotic
Enteritis or Summer Diarrhoea 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 462 cases of
Diarrhcea were notified throughout the whole of the Borough, 184
being under one year of age; 224 between one and five; 21 between
five and fifteen; 9 between fifteen and twenty-five; 16 between
twenty-five and forty-five; 6 between forty-five and sixtv-five, and
2 over sixty-five. Two hundred and twenty-five of such notifications
related to patients in East Greenwich, 124 in West Greenwich, 42
in St. Nicholas, and 71 in Charlton.
Except in a portion of the district of Charlton and in St.
Nicholas, in which district the local Nursing Societies assist in the
visitation, no special visitation was carried out other than that
of the Female Sanitary Inspector, who, during the summer months,
gave this work her special attention, making 2,347 visits, finding it
as stated elsewhere, to be entirely beyond the present resources of
this Department to deal with in a satisfactory manner. There
"were 61 deaths ascribed to this disease, comparing with .31 in the
previous year.
Whooping Cough. Five hundred and thirty-three cases were
notified (compared with 525 in 1912), 98 being under one year of
age, 284 from one to five; 148 from five to fifteen; 2 from fifteen
to twenty-five; 1 between twenty-five and forty-five, the districts
concerned being East Greenwich, 241; West Greenwich, 209; St.
Nicholas, 43; Charlton, 38; and Kidbrooke, 2 (of which total
number, 11 were treated in Institutions in the district). Each of
these cases was 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.
Leprosy. In March, 1912, this Council passed the necessary
Resolution, after giving the usual 14 days' notice, to the effect that