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Owing to the prevalence of measles, the Infants' Department
of St. Mark's School, and class-rooms in the Infants'
Department of Mantua Street School and Wix's Lane School
were closed and disinfected.
The Infants' Department of Christ Church and Basnett Road
Schools, and the Battersea Park Tabernacle Sunday School,
were also disinfected.
All the cases reported are visited by the inspectors; most
of this work is done by Miss Dawson, who endeavours to
secure such measures of isolation as are possible, and disinfection
is carried out after each case. The total number of
premises disinfected after measles was 1,237. The followingleaflet
is handed to the person responsible for the care of the
patient:—
BATTERSEA BOROUGH COUNCIL.
Measles.
An important alteration in the law relating to Measles has
lately been made, the main provisions of which are set out
below. Any person 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.
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.