Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 May 2009
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.
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.
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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.