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Whooping Cough.
The number of deaths from Whooping Cough was 23, or 67 less than in the
previous year. This corresponds to a death rate of .083 per 1,000 of the population,
while that for the whole of London was .17 per 1,000.
4 belonged to the Limehouse District, or at the rate of .075 per 1,000 of
the population.
6 belonged to St. George-in-the-East, or at the rate of .12 per 1,000 of
the population.
5 belonged to Mile End Old Town, or at the rate of .045 per 1,000 of the
population.
8 belonged to the Whitechapel District, or at the rate of .12 per 1,000 of
the population.
Summer Diarrhoea.
The number of deaths from Diarrhoea (which includes Epidemic and Zymotic
Enteritis, Dysentery and Dysenteric Diarrhoea) was 305, or 129 more than in the
previous year. 246 were under 1 year of age.
81 belonged to the Limehouse District, or at the rate of 1.53 per 1,000
of the population.
52 belonged to St. George-in-the-East, or at the rate of 1.11 per 1,000
of the population.
125 belonged to Mile End Old Town, or at the rate of 1.12 per 1,000 of the
population.
47 belonged to the Whitechapel District, or at the rate of .73 per 1,000 of
the population.
The death rate for the whole Borough was 1.10 per 1,000 of the population.
As stated in previous Annual Reports, Summer Diarrhoea is now generally
believed to be an infectious disease, capable of spreading from the sick to the healthy.
Direct infection may be conveyed by the milk, or other food, as well as by other
means such as the use of comforters, placing the infants on dirty floors, &c.
The disease is believed to be due to many different species of micro-organisms,
and that they reside in the superficial layers of the earth, which contain suitable
food for them, that is, soil polluted with decomposing organic matter. The
development and multiplication of the micro-organism depend on a high temperature
not of the air itself, but of the superficial layers of the soil,