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It is, moreover, most important to protect the young child from
preventible disease, and to guard its physique during the crucial years
of rapid development; and the exposure to cold and damp involved
in school attendance through the winter months ,could doubtless be
shown, were the facts available, to be the cause of a great deal of
unnecessary sickness amongst these infants.
If, in addition to the exclusion of children under 5 years of age
from elementary schools, all parents could be impressed with the
advantage of making efforts to protect their offspring from Measles
for as long as possible, and to regard the disease as one which demands
an anxious care to keep the child warm and protected from chills for
several weeks even after the rash has disappeared, I am confident that
the deaui-rate from Measles would be very considerably reduced.
PUERPERAL FEVER.
Under Puerperal Fever are included the deaths from Pyaemia and
Septicaemia occurring in the lying-in women. No case was notified
during the year.
It is satisfactory to note that the mortality among puerperal
women, both from puerperal sepsis and from accidents at childbirth,
is steadily decreasing.