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Leaflets on "Precautions against the Spread of Infection
of Measles" have been freely distributed throughout the
Borough for the education of parents. All children from infected
houses were excluded from school and their homes
disinfected.
WHOOPING COUGH
Caused 49 deaths during the year; of these, 47 were under
five years of age; for the three preceding years the deaths
were 36, 50 and 58 respectively. The annual rate per 1,000 was
0.43, for England and Wales 0.34, for the 76 great towns 0.40,
and for London as a whole 0.33.
PHTHISIS.
Consumption, Tuberculosis and other tubercular diseases
caused 220 deaths during the year, being equal to a rate of 1.93
per 1,000 persons living. For the previous year the rate was
1.81 per 1,000, for London as a whole the rate was 1-62.
At a Conference convened by the London County Council in
July, it was resolved:—
(a) That the system of voluntary notification of Phthisis
is desirable, and should be made general throughout London.
(b) That the Sanitary Authorities should disinfect the
premises in which a person suffering from Phthisis has died,
or from which such a patient has removed or has been
removed, also that it is desirable to make provision of
sanatoria for the isolation and treatment of persons suffering
from Consumption; and that, in the opinion of the Conference
the Metropolitan Asylums Board should be such Authority.
That the foregoing resolution be sent to the Local
Government Board with a request that they give the matter
their immediate consideration.
RESPIRATORY DISEASES.
Under this heading are included Bronchitis, Pneumonia,
Pleurisy and other diseases of the respiratory organs; 344 deaths