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under i year of age, and probably arises from
the mothers being obliged to go out to work and
leave the patients in the charge of elder children.
All the deaths occurred in the poorest quarters of
the town.
Whooping Cough.
Three deaths were uncomplicated, the remaining
5 were complicated with other diseases, and all
were in very young children under 2 years of age.
There was 1 death in Surbiton and 2 in New
Maiden.
Diarrhcea.
This disease was much less prevalent than last
year. 8 cases of death in children and 1 adult.
There were many cases of mild diarrhoea at the time
of the floods, when the water supplied by the
Lambeth Co. was of a light sherry colour, because
from want of storage capacity flood water was made
use of. This mild diarrhcea seems to have been
prevalent all over the districts supplied by the
Lambeth Co. In Hampton Wick and Teddington,
supplied by another company, it was not noticed
although the notification of Diarrhcea was in force in
that district.
Only 1 death from this disease in children and
1 in an adult occurred in Surbiton.
Influenza.
Seven deaths from this disease in Kingston
with one in Surbiton and one in New Maiden.
Phthisis.
Thirty-two adults and 2 children under 5 years.
Six of these persons lived in the older part of the
town and 3 of them in the neighbourhood of Mill
Street. There was no case at all at the Surbiton