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£ s. d.
*Mary Ward Settlement School for Mothers 38 19 4
Camden Town Mothers'and Infants'Welfare Centre 258 0 3
Centres at Argyle Square, Oseney Crescent and Falkland Road 276 9 2
South Highgate Mothers' and Infants' Welfare Centre 24 10 0
Maternity Nursing Association (for Maternity and Child Welfare
Centre) 70 1 5
*Maternity Nursing Association (for extern Midwifery and Maternity
Nursing) 575 0 0
*University College Hospital (for Maternity and Child Welfare) 1,507 15 1
*Royal Free Hospital (for extern Midwifery and Maternity Nursing) 132 0 0
* „ „ (for Maternity and Child Welfare Centre) 146 10 0
* „ „ (in respect of the Marlborough Maternity
Section) 1,900 0 0
St. Pancras Dispensary (Infant Clinic) 283 15 0
Mayoress of St. Pancras Nursing Fund (Home Nursing) 69 18 4
Mayoress of St. Pancras Home for Sick Children 754 0 0
White field Day Nursery 328 16 10
Kentish Town Day Nursery 579 12 0
Margaret Club and Day Nursery 492 9 6
* Including expenditure on work amongst residents outside St. Pancras.
DIARRŒA AND ENTERITIS.
The year 1921 was characterised by an abnormal amount of sickness and mortality from
these causes. This was due to the unusual heat and dryness of the summer season. Particulars
as to the weather conditions for the year will be found in Table 6 on page 94, which shows
that in every month in the year except January and September the rainfall was less than the
average, and that in every month except November the mean air temperature was higher than
the average. The rainfall for the year was 14.59 inches, which was less than the average by
9-92 inches.
There were in the year 98 deaths from diarrhœa and enteritis of which 83 were of children
under five years of age, and 74 of children under one year. The disease is eminently one of the
summer and autumn, the infantile form being commonly known as summer diarrhoea, and in the
table inset at pages 34 and 35 will be seen the number of deaths from these causes registered
week by week. Thirteen were registered in August (4 weeks), 36 in September (5 weeks) and
13 in October (4 weeks); 62 of the total of 98 deaths being reported in these three months.
It is satisfactory to record that the amount of mortality from diarrhoea and enteritis was
substantially less than in previous years similarly characterised by a hot and dry summer. It has
been found that the diarrhœal mortality tends to follow closely the temperature of the earth
at a depth of 4 feet. That is to say, it increases at the season when the 4 foot earth temperature
is high, and is greatest in the years when this temperature is highest. For purposes of comparison
the following particulars are submitted for the past 18 years, the mean of the earth
temperatures at 4 feet depth (Camden Square) recorded for the months of August, September
and October, being given as an index of the extent to which meteorological conditions favoured
the incidence of diarrhceal conditions:—