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64. The following table shows the death-rate from the
above-mentioned diarrhœal diseases per 1,000 births, in each
parish during the past eight years:—

The Council decided in the spring of 1905 to pay for voluntary
notifications of the first case of Zymotic Enteritis occurring
in a family during the months of July, August, and September;
and in January, 1906, it was decided to contiue the experiment
for three years more. A full report on the notifications
received in the four years, 1905-8, was presented and printed
in the Council's Minutes of the meeting on the 11th February,
1909. As the result of the report, your Council resolved that
voluntary notification of Zymotic Enteritis should be continued,
and that the disease should be made notifiable in June and
October as well as in the three summer months.
Erysipelas.
65. There were 90 cases of Erysipelas notified, compared
with 74, 83, 110, and 110, in the four preceding years. There
were 7 deaths. The case-rate was 0.70, and the death-rate
0.05 The London case-rate was 0.86,
Epidemic Cerebro-spinal Meningitis.
66. In consequence of the serious epidemic of this disease
in certain towns of Ireland and Scotland, Cerebro-spinal menin-