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of the provisions of those sections would tend to prevent or
check the spread of the disease, and that in such cases a
notice be served requiring such precautions to be adopted
as are contained in the foregoing sections."
I am Gentlemen,
Your Obedient Servant,
W. H. Kempster, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health.
To the Health Committee,
Battersea Borough Council.
At present it is not officially known what action the
London County Council propose to take in the matter.
Whooping Cough.
It has been shown that a considerable reduction in Measles
mortality took place during the year, but this is not so satisfactory
when the deaths recorded from Whooping Cough are
taken into consideration with the fact that the two diseases are
generally associated. During the year 1900 the mortality from
Whooping-Cough, which in the preceding year was only fifty-two,
increased more than two-fold, one hundred and eight deaths
being recorded. The distribution of the deaths during the four
quarters of the year was as follows : —During the first quarter,
twenty-six; the second, thirty-one; the third, thirty-five; and
the last quarter, sixteen. The following shows the mortality
during the past six years and also the annual average during
that period : —
Deaths.
1895 52
1896 137
1897 82
1898 71
1899 52
1900 108
Annual average 83