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Preventive Measures.—Every case of the disease has been
visited and enquiries made as to sanitary conditions, etc. In
almost every case we have also carried out disinfection of dwellings,
bedding, clothing, etc., the exceptions being houses in which the
occupiers carried out their own disinfection. The following card of
instructions has been widely distributed by the inspectors and also
by the superintendents of model dwellings to whom I have sent
large numbers :—
MEASLES.
1. Measles is very prevalent in Finsbury at the present time.
2. It is a dangerous infectious disease. More children die of
Measles and of Whooping Cough than of all the other infectious
diseases added together. In all cases therefore, Measles requires
cakeful nursing. Medical advice should be obtained.
3. Children and other persons suffering from Measles must not now
go to school or public meetings of any kind; nor may they now
mix with other children or persons; nor may they travel by train
or any public conveyance (under penalty of £5.) They must be
kept at home isolated from other persons until free from all
infection.
4. Rooms and clothing must be disinfected by the Sanitary Authority
after Measles as after Diphtheria and Scarlet Fever.
(Signed) GEORGE NEWMAN, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Public Health Department,
Finsbury Town Hall,
Rosebery Avenue, E.C., 1904.
WHOOPING COUGH
There were 26 deaths from Whooping Cough, giving a death
rate of 0.26. This disease shows a considerable decrease.
Whooping Cough is a disease of about two months' duration,
and is chiefly characterised by bronchial catarrh and a frequent
paroxysmal cough. It generally occurs as an epidemic late on in
the winter, say from January to March. Though no age is
absolutely exempt from Whooping Cough, it is essentially a
children's disease, most of the cases being met with in children