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DIARRHŒAL ORDER.
7.—Diarrhcea (decennial average 21.3).
Caused the death of 30 persons, 27 being infants under
1 year of age.
Epidemic Cholera.
In the early part of the year a sudden recrudescence of
cholera was reported from Constantinople, and from time
to time cases were reported from certain districts in
Southern Russia, Monte Video, the Argentine Republic,
Buenos Ayres, and other foreign cities, but no case of the
disease was reported in the United Kingdom.
The same precautions were adopted as in previous
years by the Port Sanitary Authorities for the careful
inspection of all vessels and passengers arriving from
infected places, to prevent as far as possible the introduction
of the disease into the country.
Notification of Infectious Disease.
The number of cases of Infectious Disease notified to
the several Metropolitan Medical Officers of Health under
the provisions of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
in the fifty-two weeks ended Saturday, 28th December,
1895, amounted to 43,722; these included small-pox, 1,045;
scarlet fever, 19,757; diphtheria, 10,772; enteric fever,
3,710; typhus and continued fevers, 122; puerperal or
lying-in fever, 249; erysipelas, 5,994; croup, 451; and
summer cholera, 30.
Compulsory notification of Infectious Disease is now in
force, either by adoption of the Act of 1889 or by the