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During 1914 diarrhoea and epidemic enteritis accounted for 25
deaths of infants under one year of age, 19 others being due to
enteritis or gastro-enteritis, making a total of 44 deaths from
" diarrhoeal " diseases. A further 23 deaths at ages from one year
or upwards were due to these diseases.
The accompanying charts shew the seasonal distribution of the
diarrhoeal deaths under one year of age, in the years 1913 and
1914.
METHOD OF FEEDING.
The following are the particulars as to feeding of infants
during the first six months of life of children who survived, and of
children who died between one week and six months old. Deaths
of infants under one week have been excluded because it is unlikely
that methods of feeding can have been responsible for a fatal issue
in so short a time.