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PRECAUTIONS AS TO DIARRHŒA.
In consequence of the prevalence of Diarrhoea amongst
young children, more especially those brought up by hand, the
Vestry as the Sanitary Authority acting under the advice of their
Medical Officer of Health, beg to direct the attention of Parents
and others having care of young children to the great advisability
of boiling all water and milk used for feeding such children.
Care should be taken as to the sound condition of every
article of food for children, anything not fresh being withheld.
Fruit especially should not be given if in the slightest degree
decomposed.
Cleanliness of person and dwellings with frequent flushing
of house drains is of the greatest value.
Disinfectants in case of illness are supplied free of charge on
application to the Public Health Department, Town Hall Road,
between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., and on Saturdays,
between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Measles
and
Whooping
Cough.
The number of cases which occurred during 1898
cannot be ascertained, as these, the most fatal of all
zymotic diseases, still remain non-notifiable. I reported
relative to the prevalence of Measles, and the number of fatal
cases becoming grave I was directed to re-issue a bill giving
the public instructions asto the necessary precautionsto beobserved
during an epidemic of this disease, and they are here appended.
One hundred and nineteen fatal cases of Measles were
recorded during the year, the number during 1894 having been
one hundred and fifty-one, during 1895 ninety-nine, in 1896
one hundred and eighty-five, and in 1897, seventy-six.
At a Meeting of the Health Committee in April, a letter was
considered from the London County Council, enclosing copy of a
communication from the London School Board, asking the Council