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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 and all
articles therein liable to retain infection disinfected and
notice of the disease must be given 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. It causes many
more deaths than Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria. Bronchitis
and Inflammation of the Lungs are common complications of
Measles, 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.
When a patient is suffering from Measles, no neighbour's
child, or neighbour accompanied by a child, should be admitted
into the house, and the provisions set out above must be strictly
observed.
By order,
G. F. McCLEARY,
Medical Officer of Health.
Whooping Cough.
Whooping Cough caused 49 deaths during the year, or
29 less than the decennial average. The deaths were equivalent
to a death-rate of .28 per 1,000, or .18 lower than the mean
death-rate for the preceding ten years, which was .46. The
death-rate in the County of London was .32.
The death-rate in the sub-districts was as follows:—
East Battersea, .27; North-West Battersea, .42; South-West
Battersea, .15.
Seventeen deaths were of infants under one year, and 30