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DIARRHOEA, OR ZYMOTIC ENTERITIS.
59. The deaths from diarrhoea and enteritis (all forms)
under two years of age were 10, or 1.98 per 1,000 living under
two. The rate for London was 12.29. The total number of
deaths from these diseases at all ages was 15. Owing to change
in nomenclature, the diarrhoea death-rate cannot be strictly
compared with that of previous years, but the rate has
probably never been so low before as it was last year.
Notification. Voluntary notification of zymotic enteritis
commenced in Woolwich in 1905. The Council ordered its
trial for one year, and then for three years. The results of
four years' notifications were fully reported (see Council's
Minutes, February 11th, 1909), and they were so satisfactory
that it was resolved to continue the voluntary notification
indefinitely, and, from and including 1909, to extend the
period of notification to June and October, thus making the
disease notifiable during five months, instead of three.
129 cases were notified in the past year. This is the lowest
number notified in any year since notification commenced
except in 1907, when 93 cases were notified. 9 cases were
notified in June, 81 in July, 28 in August, 6 in September,
and 5 in October.
The fatality (deaths under two years, from June to October,
per 100 notified cases under two) was 3.6, compared with
6.7, 8.8, 14.6, and 13.8, in the four preceding years. As pointed
out in previous Reports, the fatality has been highest when the
prevalence was greatest, and vice versa.
60. The following tables give full particulars of the
cases notified each year since notification commenced:—