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to take steps to close the school. The Medical Officer of the School
Board was acquainted with the existence of the disease.
DIARRHCEA.
Fifty-nine deaths from diarrhoea with two from outlying institutions
belong to the Poplar parish, giving a total of 61 deaths, 57 of which
occurred in children under five years. In Bromley 73 deaths happened,
two of which did not belong to the parish, and one was notified from
an outlying institution, giving a total of 72 deaths, 67 of which
occurred in children under five years of age. For death rates see
Table IV., page 14.

Diarrhoea as is well known begins to prevail about the end of the second
quarter of the year, and heat is one of the main factors in causing
the prevalence of the disease, as pointed out in my last annual report.
Comparing the above figures with those on page 29, giving the mean
average temperature of the air during the second and third quarters
for those periods of the respective years, the temperature is seen to be
lowest for those periods in the year 1894, in which the deaths from
diarrhoea were few.
One death from English cholera occurred in Bromley in the case
of a patient aged 60 years. The deceased had been ailing in health
for nearly a year, and had given up work owing to weakness.