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(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.
(d) Feeding of Infants and young children at the Municipal
Milk Depot, 66, York Road.
INFLUENZA.
A serious and wide-spread epidemic occurred throughout the
Borough, especially during the 3rd and 4th quarters of the year,
as shewn by a total of 819 deaths (corrected), certified as due to
that particular disease. Arranged quarterly, the mortality figures,
are:—1st Quarter, 12; 2nd Quarter, 11; 3rd Quarter, 70; 4th
Quarter, 726; Total, 819. Of these 819 deaths, 75, i.e. 9.1 per
cent., were in persons under 5 years of age, and 20, i.e. 2.4 per cent.,
in persons under 1 year of age. The highest mortality was in the
age-period 25 to 40 years, viz., 267, i.e. 32.6 per cent., whilst the
age periods 45 to 60 years and over 60 years also suffered severely,
viz., 125 and 142, i.e. 15.3 per cent, and 17.3 per cent, respectively.