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benefit. These Visitors—who would be trained nurses as
well as qualified Sanitary Inspectors—would instruct the
mothers to properly nurse the sick child, and by frequent
visits, would prevent the child from being exposed to conditions
that render it liable to complications which are mainly
responsible for a fatal termination.
The deaths from Zymotic diseases numbered 222, and correspond
to a death rate of 3.7 per thousand of the population.
The Zymotic death rate for the whole of London was 2.19 per
1,000, such deaths include Small Pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever,
Diphtheria, Croup, Whooping Cough, Puerperal Fever, Enteric
Fever and Diarrhoea.
The number of deaths from Inflammatory affections of the
Lungs was 266, and corresponds to a death rate of 4.5 per
1,000 of the population.
141 deaths were due to Phthisis which is equal to a death
rate of 2.4 per 1000. The death rate for the whole of London
was i'75 per 1000. In addition to the deaths from Phthisis
there were 54 deaths due to other Tubercular diseases. There
were therefore 195 deaths due to the Tubercle Bacillus. This
corresponds to a death rate of 3.3 per thousand of the population,
and is exactly the same number as that in the previous
year.
About the middle of the year, the Stepney Branch ot the
Charity Organization Society called a public meeting with the
object of trying to reduce the high mortality from this disease, by
educating the people as to the best means of preventing this
disease. A Committee was formed, and one of the recommendations
of that Committee was that the pamphlets
issued by this Board in 1894 should be re-printed after being
brought up to date, and circulated widely amongst the inhabitants
of the district. The Board agreed to this, and a large
number of copies of the following was distributed:—