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Puerperal Fever. No cases of Puerperal Fever were notified during the year.
Infant Mortality. Considerable attention has of late been drawn to the infantile
throughout the County generally.
In April last, a conference of Medical Officers of Health of
the various districts in Surrey, was called by Mr. Welchs, Chairman
of the Sanitary Committee of the Surrey County Council, and
among the resolutions passed were the following suggested remedies,
viz.: —
(1) The dissemination of hygienic knowledge by the
tribution of leaflets, etc.
(2) Increased care by the Local Authorities concerned in,
(a) Premises in which there are young
lies, and the prevention of overcrowding,
(b) Cowsheds and dairies, and the prevention
of milk adulteration.
The County Sanitary Committee communicated the resolutions
to the various Sanitary Authorities in the County.
During the first year of life the number of deaths in Wimbledon
was 156, being a decrease of 7 from last year, and is equal to a
mortality of 145.11 per thousand children born during the year.
The ratios of deaths of infants to 1,000 registered births for
this and the previous year shows a decrease of 12.98.
Seeing that this death-rate has been rising for the past 6
years (as shown in Table 6), this decrease is satisfactory, and I
sincerely hope that it will continue in future years.
Referring to the resolutions before mentioned as to the dissemination
of hygienic knowledge by leaflets, etc., leaflet literature
on this subject relating to,
(1) The feeding and care of infants, and the prevention
of Diarrhoea,
(2) Notes respecting Measles,