View report page

119
1,500 handbills upon the prevention of Infantile Diarrhoea were distributed.
With the assistance of Dr. Herdman, who kindly volunteered his
aid, the farts with reference to the incidence of Summer Diarrhoea on
the different areas of Stoke Newington were investigated, not only
during the early part of the summer of last year, but for each year
since 1904. The mortality returns being our only guides to incidence,
and the deaths for the eight years only totalled 88—the data are too few
to justify conclusions beyond the broad fact that there is a district
which is (roughly speaking) enclosed by Church Path, Clissold Road,
Cowper Road, and Watson Street, inside of which almost half of the
total deaths during the past eight vears have occurred, and that
a large .proportion of the deaths occur in the month of August, and
practically the whole of the mortality occurred in August and
September.
M iss Aldridge reports that:—“Only one baby who died during
last summer from Diarrhoea was entirely breast-fed, 3 were partly
breast-fed, and the rest were entirely hand-fed. Ten of the mothers
of these babies had previously lost children.”
CANCER.
For the purpose of (enabling the incidence of Cancer on the
several (populations of the London sanitary areas to be more precisely
stated, factors have been calculated for correcting the death-rates, as
far as possible, for the differences in the age and sex constitution of
the several populations concerned.
Certain predisposing factors in the causation of Cancer are now
pretty generally accepted. Some of these are be\ond individual control;
others, however, such as occupation .and habits of life (determining
a localised chronic irritation or inflammation), and suspicious
growths in connection with old scars and simple Tumours, call for a
more general recognition among the general public, in order that preventive
measures and early treatment may be put in operation- more
especially by those with an hereditary predisposition to the disease.