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59. Bacteriological Diagnosis. 18 samples of blood were
sent to the Lister Institute to bo examined for Widal's
reaction. A positive result was obtained in 6.
Diarrhœa or Zymotic enteritis.
60. The deaths from Diarrhœa, Dysentery, and Epidemic
or Zymotic Enteritis were 17, or 013 per 1,000 population,
compared with 0.52, 0.81, 0.26, 0.36, and 0.15, in the
five preceding' years. The rate for London was 0.28.
There were in addition 13 deaths from Enteritis and
Gastro-Enteritis, making a total of 30 deaths, or 11 per
1,000 births, due to diarrhœal diseases. 21 of the 30 were
under one year of age, and 2 between one and five years.
61. The following table shows the death-rate from the
above-mentioned diarrhœal diseases, per 1,000 births, in
each parish during the past nine years:—

Notification. Voluntary notification of Zymotic Enteritis
commenced in Woolwich in 1905. The Council ordered its
trial first for one year, and. then for three years. The results
of four years notifications were fully reported (see Council's
Minutes, 11th February, 1909), and they were so satisfactory