View report page

91
Polio Myelitis, 1913.
1. March 11th. Male, 2 years. Removed to the Children's
Hospital, Great Ormond Street. Died. The death was
attributed to cerebro-spinal fever, not to polio myelitis.
2. May 17th. Male, 2 years. Removed to St. Bartholomew's
Hospital. Recovered.
3. June 14th. Male, 9 years. Removed to St. Bartholomew's
Hospital. Died.
All the cases were investigated; one of the tenements was dirty
and verminous, the others were clean.
MEASLES AND HOOPING COUGH.
Measles.—This disease is not notifiable. In 1913, notice of 276
cases was received from the London County Council Education
Department, from head teachers of schools, from school visitors,
from doctors, from the medical officers of other borough councils,
from relieving officers, from registrars of births and deaths, from
sanitary inspectors, superintendents of dwellings, and from parents
and guardians.
The sections of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, which
refer to the cleansing and disinfection of premises and materials,
and to contact with, or exposure of, infected persons and things,
have been extended to measles. These are Sections 60-65, 68-70,
and 72-74.
By the Metropolitan Asylums (Measles) Order, 1911, dated
May 30th, 1911, the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board
were made available for the reception of non-pauper cases of
measles.