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cations received would be forwarded to the schools, and the children
attending from infected houses would be excluded until after the disinfection
of the premises. No resolution was passed to include
measles among the list of notifiable diseases. I asked the Committee
to recommend that the Registrars be instructed to give me
immediate information, as they do with certain other contagious and
infectious diseases, of deaths from measles, in order that steps might
be taken to induce the relatives or friends of the deceased to allow
the premises and clothing to be disinfected, This recommendation
was adopted, and the premises, &c., after a death are disinfected
where the friends can be induced to give their permission.
It is strange that of all diseases, measles is the only disease for
which there is no hospital accommodation. I must confess that even
if measles were included among the notifiable diseases, that only so
far as excluding the children in the same house from school no other
benefit would accrue until cases of measles are admitted into the
Asylums Boards' hospitals, inasmuch as the treatment for measles,
like that of all other diseases, requires hygienic surroundings, and
these unfortunately are not met with in the over-crowded homes of
the poor.
DIARRHŒA.
The deaths from Diarrhoea were as follow:—
Quarters. Total.
1st 2nd 3rd 4th
Poplar 5 1 10 4 20
Bromley 2 2 21 4 29
Total 7 3 31 8 49
From these figures it will be seen that diarrhoea was most prevalent
during the hottest quarter of the year. The Board at its meeting,