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cases and the repayment for anti.toxin in the case of poor
patients unable to pay the doctor must, I think, have had considerable
influence in this happy result. The deaths occurred
in cases when medical aid was not sought in time.
ENTERIC FEVER.
The deaths from this disease are 2 in number. One was
a traveller who came home ill from South Africa, and one
was only seen in advanced stage of the disease, beginning, as
supposed influenza and not seeking medical aid till about the
third week of the disease.
Of the other six cases notified three were in young persons
two of whom had opportunities of contracting the disease in
other places.
One came from New Maiden.
One ,, ,, Wimbledon.
One „ „ Molesey.
DIARRHCEA AND INFANTILE MORTALITY.
The infantile mortality is low, 96.8 per 1,000 births. There
was absence of great heat throughout the summer with the
consequence that the total deaths attributable to summer
diarrhoea was only 11.
ERYSIPELAS.
There were 2 deaths in children under one year of age. One
of these had been vaccinated, but there was no reason to suppose
that vaccination caused the erysipelas, as other cases vaccinated
from the same lymph were quite well, and too long a
period had elapsed for the case to have been due to inoculation.
The arm was not the part affected,
SMALL POX AND VACCINATION.
Small Pox has been absent from the country generally,
but with the facilities for communication throughout the
world the disease is liable to be re.introduced at any moment.
The new Vaccination Act makes it much easier for careless
persons to save themselves the trouble of having children
vaccinated. There is much more objection to the bother of
vaccination than conscientious objection to the practice, and