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(64)
Diarrhcea (decennial average, 51.4).
The deaths (37), owing chiefly to the cold Summer and
Autumn, were below the average. 32 were deaths of
children under 5 years of age, and of these 18 were infants
under one year of age.
The operation of the Adulteration Act may be a reason
for this low fatality, through the better quality of the milk
supplied to the numerous bottle-fed children in the poorer
parts of the district, where the mothers are obliged to
leave their homes to seek daily work.
The other Zymotic Diseases.
The remaining diseases in the Zymotic class require but
few remarks.
Croup was fatal to 21 children.
Erysipelas caused 6 deaths.
Puerperal or Lying-in Fever was fatal to one female,
but in addition, 7 women died in childbed, but not from
fever.
Rheumatism, acute and chronic, killed 3.
Syphilis destroyed 8; 7 being infants.
Glanders.—1.
A death of a cabman residing in Montague Mews was
registered from Farcy (glanders). I immediately reported