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deaths from Diarrhœa. Again, Improper Feeding and
General Neglect are other factors to be reckoned with.
It may also be noticed that five infants under one year of
age at the time of their death were illegitimate and only
eight illegitimate births were registered in the District
during the year.
Since the year 1905 the Local Government Board
have issued a new table (Table V.) which sets out a
great number of details. The figures in the table for
1906 show—
1. That one-fourth of all the deaths under one
year occurred before the end of the first month of life.
2. That 18 or one-third of the whole number died
of Diarrhoea.
3. That Premature Birth is responsible for nine
deaths out of 53, or roughly a sixth.
4. That the conditions known as Atrophy, Debility
and Marasmus are credited with seven deaths, or about
an eighth of the whole number.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
I.—Not Notifiable.
MEASLES.
There were six deaths of children under five years
of age and they occurred between September and
November in the Upper Teddington Ward. Isolated
cases occurred in various parts of the District in the
first and last quarters of the year. As the disease was
more prevalent in the Upper Teddington and Fulwell
Wards, where the Wellington Road School and the
Victoria Schools are situated, I advised the teachers of
those schools to watch the children carefully and send
those home who had a bad cold, inflamed eyes or cough,
and to exclude any child residing in an infected house.