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The type of Small-pox during the past few years has been mild
as compared with earlier times, but this has not been invariably so.
in London, in 1922, for example, 20 deaths occurred in an outbreak
of 65 cases, and in the 10 cases at Willesden, in 1924, there were
3 deaths. What the future has in store it is quite impossible to
prophesy. The old, more virulent form of Small-pox may return
at any time, and the country must be prepared to meet a situation
which it is not possible to estimate for.
DIARRHOEA AND ENTERITIS.
There were 7 deaths from this disease among children
under 2 years of age. The death-rate is best expressed as the
proportion which the deaths under two years of age from these
diseases form to a thousand births. The rate is 7.13, which
compares favourably' with the rate for London generally
(106).
There can be no questioning the fact that Hospital
treatment of severe cases of these diseases saves many children
who would receive neither adequate medical supervision not nursing
aid in their own homes, and in 1924 the Metropolitan Asylums
Board made provision for the reception and treatment of a limited
number of selected cases. More recently this provision has been
somewhat increased and a few selected sufferers from Marasmus or
Wasting can also be accommodated.
INFLUENZA.
The deaths directly ascribed to this disease numbered 15.
ERYSIPELAS.
The case-rate of this disease in England and Wales was 0.39.
In Stoke Newington it was about 019.
MEASLES.
Measles and Whooping Cough were but little in evidence