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Practical measures were again taken to prevent epidemic
diarrhoea (and other diseases) in infants and to promote hygienic
conditions in their feeding and environment, as follows :—
(a) Visiting of houses wherein births were notified under the
Notification of Births Act, 1907, or wherein deaths were
registered as having occurred from epidemic diarrhoea ;
(b) Teaching of proper feeding and care and management of
infants by the Council's officers at the Infants' Consultations
held at 66, York Road ;
(c) Issuing of special leaflets or posters during the summer,
dealing with (1) precautions to be taken against summer
diarrhoea, (2) the danger of the areas of infection and the
contamination of food by flies, (3) the importance of
removing at once all accumulations of refuse and other
offensive matters from the neighbourhood of dwellings,
(4) the value of cleanliness generally, &c.
Epidemic Influenza.
56 corrected deaths were registered from epidemic influenza
—22 in the first quarter, 6in the second, 2in the third,
and 26 in the fourth, the annual averages for the two decennia 1891-
1900 (Parish) and 1901-1910 (Borough) being 107-5 and 53-2,
respectively.
3. —" Contacts " or " Suspects " and " Convalescents "
(Military).
Many " contacts " or " suspects " and " convalescents "
(military) were watched in connection with different diseases as
follow :—
(a) Smallpox.
18* " contacts " or " suspects," who arrived from abroad (Rangoon,
Malta, Bombay and South Africa) per S.S. "Burma," "Kaisar-
I-Hind," " Caledonia," and " Glengorm Castle," and per A.S.
" Dover Castle," respectively ; and 10 connected with the War
Belgian Refugees Camp at Earl's Court, where a case of smallpox
(charwoman) had occurred.
(b) Cerebrospinal or " Spotted" Fever (Epidemic Cerebrospinal
Meningitis).
5 " contacts " or "suspects" who arrived from outside districts
(military camps).
(c) Diphtheria.
1 " contact " or " suspect " who arrived from an outside district
(camp).
(d) Enteric or Typhoid Fever.
28 " convalescents," who arrived on furlough for varying
periods from outside districts (military hospitals).
(e) Paratyphoid Fever A and B.
7 " convalescents," who arrived on furlough for varying periods
from outside districts (military hospitals).
(f) Dysentery.
18 " convalescents," who arrived on furlough for varying
periods from outside districts (military hospitals).
* 1 contact could not be traced.