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THE STRAND DISTRICT, LONDON.
(2.) Voluntary notification by medical men, clergy, district
visitors, school teachers, &c.
(3.) [a] Closing of Day and Sunday Schools; [b] Exclusion
of members of affected households from schools.
(4.) Prevention of persons attending work where infection is
likely to be spread, as by hawkers, milk-sellers, teachers,
tailors.
(5.) Better isolation at home.
(6.) Provision of hospital accommodation.
(7.) Disinfection of invaded households.
(8.) Preventing the issue of books from public libraries to
infected houses.
(9.) Instruction of the public by leaflets and other means.
To these may be added that another means of ascertaining
the existence of measles where notification does not exist, lies in
the information to be obtained from the list of sickness cases
treated by the Parish Medical Officers.
Whooping Cough caused 8 deaths in 1896 in the Strand
District. During the 1st and 2nd Quarters of the year, there were
a number of cases in the Strand Sub-District, and during the 4th
Quarter it was introduced into St. Anne's by a family suffering
from it coming from another locality to reside in that parish.
Leaflets explaining the infectious nature of this malady were
also distributed.
Diarrhoea.—22 deaths occurred from diarrhoea or enteritis,
15 of them being in children under one year of age. I have in
previous reports, drawn attention to the relation between this
disease and various meteorological conditions, especially the earth
temperature. I need therefore only add that 19 of the deaths
took place in June, July, August, and September.
Disinfection.
During the twelve months ending 31st December, 1896, 165
premises were purified and cleansed after infectious disease, and
3,698 articles were disinfected in your Board's apparatus; 116
articles were burnt in your destructor at the request of the
owners.