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The percentage of deaths to the total number notified was 19.5.
The annual mortality per 1,000 living was 0.09.
Deaths from Enteric Fever for the last ten years:
1895 23 1900 39
1896 26 1901 18
1897 21 1902 23
1898 20 1903 23
1899 32 1904 18
Of the 92 cases notified, as many as 77 were removed to hospital,
with 13 deaths, a mortality of 16.8 per cent.
15 cases were treated at home, with 5 deaths, a mortality of 33.3
per cent.
The percentage of cases removed to hospital to the total number
notified was 83.6.
DIARRHAEA.
The deaths during the year from this disease was 282, as against 197,
169 and 222 for the three preceding years.
This increase was due to the excessive infantile mortality from
summer diarrhæa in the third quarter of the year. The deaths from
diarrhæa in the third quarter were 234. Much of this heavy mortality
was due to the comparatively hot and dry autumn months, and the dirty
and unsatisfactory quality of the food supplied to infants. The hand-fed
baby in Southwark has but a very slender chance of being present at its
first anniversary.
The annual rate per 1,000 living was 1.36.
Deaths from diarrhæa during the last ten years:
1895 205 1900 233
1896 214 1901 222
1897 300 1902 169
1898 306 1903 197
1899 260 1904 282
In every case of death from diarrhæa the house was examined, and
the history of the case in regard to the feeding of the infant (when such
deaths occurred in infants) was reported upon, together with the cleanliness
of the home and the habits of the parents.
The following directions will be issued in the summer to prevent as
far as possible infantile diarrhæa.