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46. The following are the oases notified in each parish
during the past seventeen years (not corrected for mistaken
diagnosis:-

One case was attributed to oysters, two to fried fish»
two to visits to the seaside, one to watercress, one to direct
infection by another member of the family, and one was imported
from Greenwich. Two additional cases were notified as paratyphoid.
Of the ten oases notified 9 were removed to a Fever Hospital,
two of which were reported as mistaken diagnosis.
A report was made in 1916 on the prevention of fly-carried
infection of enteric fever (see Zymotic Enteritis).
47. Bacteriological Diagnosis. 14 samples of blood were
sent to the Seamen's Hospital to be examined for Widal's reaction.
A positive result wa6 obtained in eight.
DIARRHOEA OR ZYMOTIC ENTERITIS.
48. The deaths from diarrhoea and enteritis under two years
of age were 26 or 10.0 per 1,000 births, compared with 9.9, 10.7,
7.2, and 8.9, in the four preceding years. The rate for London
was 15.7. The total number of deaths from these diseases at all
ages was 32.
Notification. Voluntary notification of zymotic enteritis
during July, August and September, commenced in Woolwich in 1905.
Compulsoiy notification commenced August 25th, 1913, and is unlimited
as to season
118 cases were notified in the past year, compared with
173, 80, and 101 in the three preceding years. Twelve cases were
notified from January to May; 4, in June; 5, in July; 45, in August;
49, in September; 2, in October; and 1, in November.
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