The CAUSES of Mortality.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 93, 21 April 1887, Page 7

The CAUSES of Mortality.

A supplement to the fifteenth annual r^ port pf thq Local Government B^oard fpr 1886-7 contains the report of their medical officer, Among the subjects investigated, Dr, summarises the resplta of public vaccination in England and Wales on children bom in 1883, Of 890,000 children 9-2 per pent, diod without yacbimv tion, and 85f per cent, had beon yacpinr ated, Of the thirty-four general local inquiries undertaken by thp niQdicul, inspector, diphtheria- outbreaks formed, the. most frequent subject of investigation. Some uneasiness was caused Dy the outbreak on >. several occai-ions. in various localities of typl>u? fcMT; 30' lation hospitals "p,nd sanitary precautions are. recommended as' effective' remedies. The ■contaminated' water, supply of Ripon and York from the River Ure is the subject of graye cpipißPntj and is point§d out as a wsirning %o similarly sjtua? ted towns deriving their water supply from I'ivers pplluted through' merg wantonness. B^pference* isi Hi^dQ.^o'tliie qutljre^k fitf ap'ftrlat tinaje.ptei.ud fevgr, and cliphtheria as result' ingfrom the use j>f inf^of/ed milk. An ep> cleriiic, which .^ppearo^; quite, recently at Wimbledon, pf this character Jg at present the .subject of 'inquiry.: Dr. "Buchanan at' trjbufees the increased mortality frpm bi^llpos jji%oqdqn iij $$' prpgenije"pf smallTi^^. hospitals in densely-populated disteicts, and suggests that other' n^ieans for redder ing tiipcliarico o| spreading inf<?ctign slpii.lg bg'tried,. " ''' '' ) '