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Membranous Croup.
Three notifications and four deaths within the
year.
Enteric or Typhoid Fever.
Fifteen notifications and two deaths, one of which
was imported.
Continued Fever.
Four notifications, no deaths.
Erysipelas.
Thirty-nine notifications, no deaths.
Diarrhœa.
From this complaint there were 34 deaths, 30
children, four adults. It was most prevalent during
the months of July, August, and September. The
question why diarrhoea is so prevalent and fatal to
infants and young children in hot summers, has been
for some time under consideration by the Medical
Department of the Local Government Board. Absence
of rainfall, a mean temperature of 60 degrees
or over, a polluted atmosphere, together with artificial
and injudicious feeding, are the chief causes of the
malady.
Measles.
This complaint is not required to be notified to the
SanitaryAuthority under the provisions of the Infectious
Diseases Notification Aft, 1889. It becomes a question
as to whether any great advantage would accrue from
its addiLion to the list, unless hospitals were provided
for the reception of those cases which could not be
properly isolated at home. It is an undoubted fact