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absence of diarrhoea, which is so fatal to young children, especially the
bottle-fed infants in poor districts.
The total deaths were 22; of which 15 were infants under 1 year of
age, and 4 between 1 and 5 years of age. In 1878, the total deaths
were 50, including 47 children under 5 years of age. The decennial
average is 62.6.
1 death was registered as " cholera," but on investigation it was
found to be a severe case of choleraic diarrhoea.
Rheumatism.—5 deaths were returned from it. This number
appears small, when the excessive dampness and cold of the past
season is taken into consideration.
Order 2.—Enthetic.
Syphilis.—13 deaths : 10 of whom were infants under 1 year.
Order 3.—Dietic.
Alcoholism.—6 deaths were registered as dying from intemperence.
This does not include many forms of disease of liver, kidneys, &c.,
which are caused from excessive drinking habits.
Order 4.—Parasitic.
Thrush.—A baby under 1 year died from it.
The following regulations for disinfecting houses, bedding, clothing,
&c., were drawn up after careful deliberation by your Sanitary
Commitee:—
1. The rooms, bedding, clothes, &c., of any person who has suffered
from small-pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhus, typhoid, or relapsing
fevers, are to be disinfected.
2. The order for the disinfection to be made by the Medical Officer
of Health, and addressed to the Clerk to the Board.
3. The Clerk, on receipt of the order, is to issue a statutory notice,
which the Sanitary Inspector is to serve upon the owner or occupier of
the infected premises, requiring him to disinfect the rooms, &c., within
a time to be specified in the notice.
4. The Sanitary Inspector to superintend such disinfection, and if
the statutory notice to disinfect has been neglected, or the work has
been inefficiently done, he is immediately to report the same to the
Medical Officer of Health, and proceed as the law directs.
5. Should the owner determine to disinfect by his own workmen, a
printed handbill is to be delivered to him by the Sanitary Inspector, as
follows:—
"The Board of Works for the St. Giles District.
" Mode of Disinfecting a Sick Room, etc.
"A large earthern pan, containing two or three gallons of strong
solution of chloride of lime or soda, must be provided, into which all
soiled bed and body linen, towels, handkerchiefs, &c., must be thrown;