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NON-NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Measles.
Although this complaint was prevalent in the
neighbouring Districts in the beginning of the year,
comparatively few cases came under my notice. This
was clue to the fact that there had been a severe
outbreak in this District in the year 1909, and in consequence
most of the children had had the complaint.
Whooping Cough.
There were a few sporadic cases of this complaint.
There was one death.
Epidemic Diahrhœa.
The very hot and dry summer was responsible for a
large amount of diarrhoea and enteritis. This occurred
both in adults and in children. The complaint did not
appear at all generally in this District until the middle
of August, although the weather had been extremely
warm ever since the end of June. The weather became
cooler in the middle of September, and then the disease
began to abate. There were in all four deaths, three
occurring in infants under one year of age and one in
a child of three who was an invalid. The first death
occurred on August 19th, and the last on September 8th.
On August 18th the Local Government Board issued a
circular advocating advice as to the feeding and management
of children during the hot weather, also that
special attention be given to scavenging, especially in
areas where diarrhoea was prevalent. Your Sanitary
Inspector made frequent inspections of such areas
occupied by the labouring classes, and house refuse was
not allowed to accumulate. Diarrhoea was prevalent all
over the District, both in the bouses of the rich and of
the poor. Advice was also given as to the feeding and
management of children, but leaflets were not published
in this connection on account of the smallness of the
District. This disease can be conveyed from person to