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If, with the assistance of the compulsory notification of the
disease, the measures that we find it possible to take succeed in
postponing infection in many cases, and in impressing parents and
guardians of the seriousness of the disease, and of the evil effects
and complications that often result from neglect to take proper care
of the sufferers during and for some weeks after the attack, much
good will result to the community. The large majority of the cases
notified were visited by the part-time Tuberculosis Nurse (Nurse
Agar), who paid 164 visits to measles cases.
ZYMOTIC DIARRHŒA.
Calculated from deaths occurring under 2 years of age
per 1,000 births.
Stoke Newington 8.98
London generally 15.80
England and Wales 12.47
PUERPERAL FEVER.
Under Puerperal Fever are included deaths from Pyaemia
and Septicaemia occurring in lying-in women. Four cases were
notified during the year; and there were 2 deaths from this disease.
PHTHISIS (CONSUMPTION) AND OTHER FORMS OF
TUBERCULOSIS.
Eighty-one cases of consumption were notified under the Public
Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1912.
A few facts may be worthy of record in connection with the
cases notified during the year. There was certainly no family
history of Consumption in over 46 per cent. of the cases investigated.
The parental history was, however, occasionally suggestive
of Phthisis, although one was informed that the death of the father
or mother was attributed to Bronchitis or some other Pulmonary
complaint.