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the Metropolis, there could be no greater boon than the
establishment by philanthropic effort or local enterprise of
hospitals for the treatment of measles. Intense as the
infection is, the infection is not so durable as that of scarlet
fever. Probably an average period of three weeks would
suffice for the treatment of the malady, hence the hospital
accommodation for measles would not require to be^ of the
large scale as that of the accommodation for scarlet fever.
If hospital accommodation were available, there would not
be a single health authority that would not recommend the
notification of measles, so that each case occurring in
families with restricted accommodation could be segregated.
The present mortality from measles is not due to special
malignity, but it is due to the practical impossibility of
skilled treatment and nursing in the crowded homes of the
town workers.