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is made to prevent its spread, healthy children, generally
being allowed to be in the same room with the sick, and even
in the same bed.
Hospitals for those cases that cannot be isolated at home,
and for those that cannot receive proper nursing and treatment
at home, which is usually the case in crowded one and
two-room tenements, are very much required, and would be
the means of very much reducing the death-rate of this
disease. Notification by the head of the family should be
compulsory, so that children from infected houses could be
excluded from school.
An exhaustive report on the question of the notification
of measles was published last year by the Local Government
Board.
Whoopiny-Couqh also is not notified. It caused 13 deaths,
last year only 7 deaths. In London there were 2937 deaths
from this disease, corresponding to a rate of 0.65 per 1000
living, and considerably exceeded the rate of any recent year,
and was about double the rate for last year.
Disinfection is carried out when practicable in those cases
that come to our knowledge.
Diarrhoea was the cause of 11 deaths, most ot them being
young children. There were also 7 deaths due to gastroenteritis.
In London diarrhoea was the cause of 3223 deaths,
or the rate of 0.72 per 1000 living. This rate was slightly in
excess of the average of the preceding ten years. There
were also 1680 deaths from enteritis. 2624 or 81 per cent. ot
the deaths from diarrhoea took place in the third quarter ot the
year—the summer quarter. The great majority of these are