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families where all necessary medical and nursing needs were privately
met. In 62 cases no doctor was found to be in attendance. In 73 cases
the services of the nurses of the District Nursing Associations were
made use of. 31 cases were removed to hospital. Eight deaths from
Measles occurred during the year, six of these deaths being those of
children under five years of age.
German Measles.
Cases of this disease ceased to be compulsorilv notifiable on 1st
Januarv, 1920.
Whooping Cough.
Cases of this disease are not compulsorily notifiable, our chief
source of knowledge is derive d from the School Teachers' notifications.
Arrangements are in existence whereby the nursing facilities of
the two Nursing Associations are available without cost to the parents,
and in special circumstances cases are received into the isolation hospitals
of the Metropolitan Asylums Board. The number of deaths from
this disease in the year was six, all being children under five years of
age.
Diarrhœa and Enteritis.
During the year 5 deaths from Diarrhoea and Enteritis occurred
among Hampstead children under 2 years of age. The following table
gives a comparison in the death-rates from these diseases in Hampstead,
London, and England and Wales during 1919:—
Death-rate per 1000 births.
Hampstead 3.2
London 9.5
England and Wales 8.3
Polio-myelitis, acute.
Two cases were notified; both were males aged 15 years. They
were not nursed at home. One recovered, but the other case resulted in
permanent paralysis of the legs.