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14 schools were disinfected during 1913 in connectionwith
scarlet fever cases notified amongst the scholars.
MEASLES AND WHOOPING COUGH.
In the Borough, during 1913, 98 and 47 corrected
deaths were registered from measles and whooping cough,
giving corrected death-rates per 10,000 of the populations
of 3.3 and 1.6 respectively.
The Inner Districts suffered (deaths per 10,000 of the
population) more than the Outer Districts, thus:—
Inner. Outer.
Whooping Cough 2.33 1.04
Measles 6.6 0.9
Of the Lambeth Registration Sub-Districts, Lambeth
Church suffered most, and Norwood least, from measles,
and Kennington most, and Norwood least, from whooping
cough.
The annual average numbers of deaths from measles
and whooping cough respectively during the two decennia
1891-1900 (Parish) and 1901-1910 (Borough), are 145.6 and
110.4 (measles) and 143.7 and 91.8 (whooping cough).
Measles.
Of the 98 deaths from measles in the Borough during
1913, 94 (i.e., 95.9 per cent.) occurred amongst children
under 5 years of age, showing that measles is a disease of
young children, and especially fatal to such. 23 of the
deaths (i.e., 23.5 per cent.) occurred amongst infants under
1 year of age.
With regard to measles, extra precautions are taken in
connection with disinfection of measles-infected houses, exclusion
of children (both infected children and also children
from infected houses) from schools, the closing of classes or