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Erysipelas.
There were fifty-three notifications and one death.
Diarrhœa.
From this complaint there were twenty-two deaths,
twenty-one were children under one year. Taking
the year as a whole it was not a very fatal disease,
but during the months of July and August when there
was absence of rain and excess of temperature the
fatality increased as usual, and in London it was
very prevalent. A mean temperature of 60 degrees
or over, absence of rainfall, a polluted atmosphere
and artificial feeding of the infant combined, and are
in fact essential, in the production of the malady.
Children who are entirely fed on breast milk rarely
suffer.
Measles.
This complaint is not included in the list of
notifiable diseases. Many authorities have added it
to the list, several however have not retained it after
the lapse of four or five years. Ten deaths were
registered from this malady. The infectiousness of
the disease in its earliest stages, the rapidity of its
spread through school agency, the extreme youth of
many of the sufferers, and the utter carelessness of
many parents in regard to it, frustrate almost every
effort made to prevent its diffusion. Some 12,000
deaths a year in England and Wales are due to this
malady.
Cancer
caused twenty deaths which is an increase of five on
the previous year. This malignant disease is by
many considered to be on the increase; it is however