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The deaths from erysipelas were at the rate of 0.10 per 1,000 inhabitants, and
15.5 per cent. of the cases certified terminated fatally.
Pyaemia and septicaemia, generally known as blood poisoning, caused the death
of 2 males and 3 females, and infective endocarditis caused the death of 2 males.
PUERPERAL FEVER.
Thirteen cases were certified, two of which terminated fatally. They were all
removed to hospital The cases certified were at the rate of 4.9 per 1,000 births as
compared with 3.9 in 1921; 2.5 in 1923, 3.1 in 1922, 2.0 in 1921, 2.9 in 1920 and 1.3
in 1919. Included amongst the cases are five which occurred in St. Leonard's
Hospital. These developed temperatures during the lying-in period and they
were certified as " fever during puerperium." There was some doubt as to whether
these cases were actually cases which should be included under the designation of
Puerperal fever. The cases certified in the Metropolis numbered 324 and were at
the rate of 3.9 per 1,000 births. The deaths were at the rate of 1.3 per 1,000 births
in the Metropolis as compared with 0.8 for Shoreditch.
DIARRHOEA.
Eleven deaths were attributed to diarrhoea and 27 to enteritis. Nearly all the
deaths from diarrhoea occurred during the last five months of the year, and 8 of them
were in infants under one year. Of the deaths from enteritis 21 were in infants under
one year and the remainder were of children aged from one to two years. Excluding
deaths from enteritis, the death-rate was 0.10 per 1,000 population, including deaths
from enteritis in children under two years, the rate was 0.35 per 1,000 population.
The deaths from diarrhoea amongst infants under one year were at the rate of 3.0
per 1,000 births; including deaths from enteritis under one year the rate was 11.0
per 1,000 births. The usual enquiries were made with a view to the prevention of
infection, but the cases were comparatively few, the prevalence of the disease being
again below the average.
The deaths from diarrhoea and enteritis in children under two years in the
Metropolis numbered 875, the death rate being 0.22 per 1,000 inhabitants.
The mortality from diarrhoea and enteritis amongst infants under one year was at the
rate of 9,5 per 1,000 births.
MEASLES.
The deaths numbered 34 as compared with 58 in 1924, 23 in 1923, 84 in 1922, 18
in 1921, 50 in 1920, 12 in 1919, 72 in 1918, 139 in 1917, 33 in 1916 and 67 in 1915,
being considerably below the average for recent years. Of the deaths, 14 were
amongst males and 20 females. With one exception they were all amongst children
under five years of age,