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cut below. Any persons offending against these provisions
becomes liable to a heavy penalty.
1. A person in charge of a patient suffering from
Measles must not place the patient in any public conveyance,
or expose the patient in any street, public place,
shop or inn.
2. It is illegal to give, lend, sell, transmit, remove
or expose, without previous disinfection, any bedding,
clothing or other articles which have been exposed to
infection from Measles.
3. A person must not knowingly cast, or cause or
permit to be cast into any ashpit any rubbish infected by
Measles without previous disinfection.
4. A person must not knowingly let a house or part
of a house in which any person has been suffering from
Measles until the premises and all articles therein liable
to retain infection have been disinfected.
5. A person ceasing to occupy a house or part of a
house in which any person has within six weeks previously
been suffering from Measles must have the premises disinfected
or give notice of the disease to the owner or
master of the house.
The above provisions also apply to the following
diseases : —Small-pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhoid fever,
puerperal fever, and erysipelas.
Measles is a very serious and fatal disease. Last year
there were, in Battersea, 99 deaths from Measles as against
82 from small-pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria and typhoid
fever put together. Bronchitis and inflammation of the lungs
are common complications, and cause many deaths. It is a
great mistake to treat Measles as a disease of little consequence.
When a case of Measles has occurred in a house, a careful
look-out should be kept on the other children, so that on the
first appearance of illness they may be kept at home and
properly treated.