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107
Visits re infant death 52
Zymotic Enteritis cases investigated 384
Re-visits 53
Visits to cases of Phthisis 247
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 10
Ophthalmia (reported by Schools) 36
Special visits 101
Infants weighed at Consultation 460
Health Lectures given 7
Reported to District Inspectors:—
Structural defects 14
Dirty interior walls 12
Other defects 19
Overcrowding 5
The outstanding feature in the year under review was
the exceptionally large number of cases of Zymotic
Enteritis notified, as a result of the phenomenally hot
summer. For several weeks during the height of the
hot weather, the notifications poured in in such numbers
that not only was all the available time taken up
with this work to the exclusion of other things,
but it was often necessary to work overtime, and
cease visiting only when daylight failed. It is to
be regretted that it was not possible to make
any special investigations into the causes and incidence
of epidemic diarrhoea with so much material
at one's disposal, and when so much remains to be
done in this direction. But to have made minute
and detailed enquiries, necessitating much clerical
work and elaborate statistics, would have taken up
time, which, as it was, was devoted to visiting