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(d) Issuing of special leaflets on breast feeding and artificial
feeding of infants, and of leaflets and posters during the
summer, dealing with (1) precautions to be taken against
summer diarrhœa, (2) the danger of the 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.
(e) Voluntary notification of cases of diarrhoea and the free
nursing of infants and children (and others) obtainable
under the Lambeth Nursing (Infectious Diseases) Scheme.
The value of such practical measures is shewn by the various
statistics in this Report, not only for the year 1927, but also for many
years past. The steady fall in the numbers of deaths registered
amongst infants and children between the ages of 1 and 5 years for
the past 30 years is remarkable, even after making allowances for
the declining birth-rate. More remarkable is the decline in the
deaths registered from diarrhœa (in infants and children between
the ages of 1 and 5 years) during the same period.
Influenza.
113 corrected deaths were registered from Influenza during
1927, as compared with an average of 83.0 during the quinquennium
1921-1925. Of the 113 corrected deaths during 1927, 86 were
registered in the 1st, 8 in the 2nd, 0 in the 3rd and 19 in the 4th
quarters respectively.