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The Factors which determine the local incidence of fatal Infantile Diarrhoea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

H. Meredith Richards
H. Meredith Richards
Affiliation:
Medical Officer of Health of Croydon.
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The various problems of infantile mortality are not only supremely interesting to the medical officer of health, but, with the continued decline in the birth rate, are calculated to assume even greater practical importance in the birth rate, are calculated to assume even greater practical importace in the near future. Of these problems none is more in need of solution than the exact etiology of infantile diarrhoea.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , July 1903 , pp. 325 - 346
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1903

References

page 325 note 1 Throughout this paper then term “diarrhoeal diseases” will include deaths from diarrhoea, zymotic enteritis, gastro-enteritis, and enteritis, i.e. schedules 10, 11, and 107 of the Society of Medical Officers of Health.

page 327 note 1 Gordon, , Practitioner, 08 1902.Google Scholar

page 327 note 2 This Journal, 1903, Vol. III. p. 68.Google Scholar

page 327 note 3 Lancet, 1903, I., p. 645.Google Scholar

page 327 note 4 L. G. B. Supplement 1889.

page 334 note 1 These cases of communicable diarrhoea are probably sui generis—only one of Dr Low's series occurred in the summer quarter.