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Enteritis occurred in July, 51 in August, 51 in September,
9 in October, 2 in November, and 1 in December. There
were none in June.
The fatality (deaths from June to October per 100
notified cases was 13.8, compared with 6.7 in 1909, 8.8 in
1910, and 14.6, in the four preceding years. As pointed
out in the report above referred to, the fatality has been
highest when the prevalence was greatest, and vice versa.
Age Distribution. Table A. (page 47), gives the age
distribution of the cases; the largest number in any three-
monthly period was between 9 and 12 months of age. 190
cases, or about one-fifth of the total were over five years.
265 cases under one year were notified, and 240 between
one and two years. Previously the number of cases under
one year has been nearly double that between one and two
years.
Feeding of Infants. Table D. shows the manner of
feeding of all cases under nine months of age. 18 had the
breast only, 27 breast milk and other food, and 120 were
hand fed.
Deaths Table H. shows the death-rate from Diarrhoea
in London and Woolwich in the summer quarter of every
year this century. Notification was adopted in Woolwich in
1905, and has not been similarly carried out in any other
London Borough. The Table indicates that whereas, before
notification, Woolwich had a slightly higher Diarrhœa
mortality than London, since notification commenced the
Woolwich death-rate has decreased to a marked extent compared
with London.