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2. Please complete the following table as to the number of cases
removed to hospital other than hospitals under the control of the London

3. Arrangements with regard to home nursing.
(a) Direct employment of nurses, whole or part-time.
No nurses directly employed.
(b) Contract with district nursing association. Please include
cost (per capitum or block grant).
District Nursing Associations supply nurses and are paid at the rate
of is. 3d. per visit. During the period under review there were 1,789
visits on account of Measles, at a cost of £111 16s. 3d.
(c) Number of homes visited.—126.
(d) Number of visits made to homes.—1,789.
4. To what extent was (1) convalescent Measles serum, (2) human
adult serum used for prevention or attenuation in connection with cases
not removed to hospitals under the control of the Council and with what
results ?
Information not available.
(The following notes were not available at the time of completing the questionnaire
:—
Four contacts under 2 years of age in a ward where a case of Measles
developed were given protective serum and none contracted the illness. In
the same ward was a four-year-old child who, for medical reasons, was not
treated with serum and she developed Measles 19 days after the original case.)
5. To what extent was any other form of treatment used in connection
with cases not removed to hospitals under the control of the London
County Council, e.g., drugs, anti-scarlet serum, vitamin therapy, etc.,
and with what results ?
Information not available.