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There are few items of urban mortality that have received more
study and attention from sanitary experts than the annual recurrence
of Infantile Summer Diarrhœa, and yet the measure of success which
has attended our efforts to control and abate this disease has been
small; a hot summer period still being responsible for a large amount
of mortality. During the past year the disease was far more prevalent
during the month of August than it was during the same period
in the preceding year. This circumstance is difficult to explain seeing
that the considerable increase in the mortality of the disease during
August was not coincident with any increase in mean temperature
and very little indeed of rainfall, in comparison with the month of
July, when the mortality was low. Compared with other years the
mean temperature of August was distinctly below the average and
the rainfall somewhat; exceeded the average.
PUERPERAL FEVER.
Under Puerperal Fever are included the deaths from Pyaemia
and Septicaemia occurring in the lying.in women. The origin of
each of the 4 cases was very obscure, and it was quite impossible to
suggest the source of infection when I personally investigated them.