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where the meat is allowed to set—stored, if the butcher desires
it, in his own compartment, in a cold chamber, and the subsequent
conveyance to his premises in specially constructed well-ventilated
vans, from the roof of which the meat hangs—are conditions
unknown in this country.
The measures sanctioned by the Vestry to reduce the dangers
of the spread of consumption through the infection derived from
previous human sufferers, are the following :—
(1). That all the medical practitioners in Stoke Newington be
informed that the Vestry is prepared, on application, to
disinfect (free of charge) all rooms which have been
occupied by patients suffering from consumption immediately
upon such rooms ceasing to be so occupied.
(2). That whenever a death from tubercular disease is certified
in the parish a visit shall be paid to the house in which
the death occurred and an offer made to disinfect free of
cost.
(3). That handbills of information as to the nature of the
disease, the ways in which it may be contracted, the
necessity for the adoption of certain precautions, and the
willingness of the Vestry to undertake gratuitous disinfection,
be sent to ministers of religion district visitors)
school teachers, medical officers, etc., of public institutions,
with a request that they will circulate these as
opportunities present themselves.
SUMMER DIARRHCEA.
• In common with those for the country as a whole, the
Stoke Newington mortality returns show a marked increase in
the number of deaths from Diarrhoea and the increase was mainly
determined by the exceptional heat of the latter half of August
and September.
Prior to the second week in August the weekly number
of deaths from summer diarrhoea had been for a long time below
the mean of the corresponding period of the preceding ten years,
but subsequently, for many weeks, those deaths considerably
exceeded the mean. This exceptional rise in the mortality from