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MEASLES.
(Deaths 48. Decennial average 99.)
The Deaths from Measles numbered 48 and were 51
below the decennial average; the mortality on the
estimated population at all ages is 036 and is identical
with that of the County of London. All the deaths in
Bethnal Green except one were amongst young
children less than five years of age. The child mortality
from Measles and its complications and sequelae is
in the proportion of 2.6 on the estimated population of
young children.
During the year 606 cases of Measles have been
reported to us by the School Authorities. A reported
case of Measles now leads to a visit by a sanitary
inspector who advises precautionary measures and
takes care that children from an infected house shall
not attend school. I am sorry to learn that a recent
regulation of the Education Department of the London
County Council relaxes this last requirement in so far
that children who reside in infected houses but have
already suffered from measles are to be required to
attend school; young children are still to be excluded
from the infant departments whether they have had
Measles or not. Disinfection is invariably proffered by
the Inspectors but was accepted in 33 instances only.
Of the school reports 80 were found to be incorrect; in
187 of the cases said to be Measles no doctor was in
attendance and such information as was obtainable had
to be accepted.