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3.65, 174 and 9 9 in the three preceding years. The rate for
London was 25.0. The total number of deaths from these
diseases at all ages was 33.
Notification. Voluntary notification of zymotic enteritis
during July, August and September, commenced in Woolwich
in 1905. Compulsory notification commenced August 25th,
1913.
173 cases were notified in the past year, compared with 129,
338, and 199 in the three preceding years. 1 case was
notified in January, 2 in March, 2 in April, 1 in May, 10 in
June, 34 in July, 61 in August, 47 in September, 11 in October,
and 4 in December.
The fatality rate (deaths under two years per 100 notified
cases under two) was 17. 3.
Zymotic Enteritis. Many persons interested in the public
health were afraid that owing to the exceptional conditions
prevailing during the war, such as the large number of horses
kept in the vicinity and the delay in removing manure, there
would be heavy prevalence of Diarrhœal diseases during the
past summer.
Special efforts were made both by the Military Authorities
and your own Public Health Department to obviate any such
occurrence, and it is satisfactory to be able to report, whether
owing to the success of these efforts, or to other factors
that the amount of diarrhoea or zymotic enteritis during the
summer has been less than for several years past.
In view of the total number of deaths during the year being
greater, but the number of notifications and of deaths during
the summer quarter being less, one is led to the supposition
that the infectious form of diarrhoea which specially prevails