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Stoke Newington 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE. A3.
Deaths from Zymotic Diseases (including Influenza) in the Year 1910.
| Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Small Pox. | Enteric Fever. | Puerperal Fever. | Measles. | Whooping Cough. | Diarrhoea and Dysentery. | Influenza. | Erysipelas. | Total. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Quarter | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 4 | .. | 7 |
| Second ,, | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 3 | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| Third „ | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 6 | 5 | .. | .. | 1 | 14 |
| Fourth ,, | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 3 | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | 8 |
| 1 | 2 | .. | 2 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 36 | |
| 1909 | 2 | 2 | .. | 1 | 1 | 9 | 13 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 42 |
ZYMOTIC DIARRHœA.
There was comparatively little prevalence of Summer Diarrhœa
during 1910, the meteorological conditions generally being unfavourable
to the development and spread of this disease.
This is a disease which mainly produces mortality among hand-fed
infants reared under unsatisfactory home conditions. It is obvious,
therefore, that our main efforts to reduce its prevalence and fatality
must be in the direction of dealing with insanitary home conditions by
frequent inspections; the education of mothers with infants; and, as
means to this latter end, the adoption of the Notification of Births Act,
and the provision of a trained woman worker to advise mothers and to
report insanitary conditions to the Sanitary Authority. Summer
Diarrhoea is a disease which is largely dependent on the filth