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The householders were advised to keep the ground round
the houses swept, and, if possible, watered, to boil their milk
and keep it and other food protected from flies.
Information was obtained from the medical men, and district
nurses, of any cases of Diarrhoea, and those houses in
which the cases occurred, and the neighbouring ones, were
visited to inspect and warn.
It was encouraging to find evidence that many of the householders
were acting on the advice given in the leaflets, and were
alive to the risks that their children ran at this time of the year.
The Bromley Health Society did splendid work by reiterated
warnings to the mothers who attended their meetings,
and by asking them to spread notice among their neighbours
of the danger of Diarrhoea amongst their children.
At the beginning of August, I wrote a warning letter to the
local papers, the publication of which in a prominent position,
attracted some attention.
The extreme heat and drought in the early summer had prepared
us to expect a heavy incidence of Diarrhoea, and, although
we might have done more if voluntary workers had been more
numerous, the measures taken last summer were undoubtedly
more efficient than in any previous year.
INFANT MORTALITY.
The Bromley and District Health Society, which was
formed in 1908, is doing a very useful and increasing work in
the Borough—a work which is most important to the welfare