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MEASLES AND WHOOPING COUGH.
These two non-notifiable infectious diseases cause more deaths
than all the notifiable infectious diseases together. In the
Borough of Lambeth, during 1902, 84 and 118 deaths were registered
from Measles and Whooping Cough, giving death-rates
per 10,000 of the population of 2.7 and 3.9 respectively. In London,
during 1902, there were registered 2,360 and 1,876 total
deaths from Measles and Whooping Cought, giving corresponding
death-rates of 5.2 and 4.1 per 10,000 of the population respectively.
Taking the Lambeth Registration Sub-Districts, it will be seen
that Lambeth Church First suffered most, and Brixton and Norwood
least, from Measles; whilst Lambeth Church Second
suffered most, and Norwood least, from Whooping Cough (vide
pages 85-86).
Comparing the Borough statistics for 1902 with those for the
old Parish for 10 years (1891-1900), it will be seen that there
has been a saving during 1902 of 60 deaths from Measles over
the average for that decennium, and a saving of 26 deaths from
Whooping Cough over the average during the same period.
Measles.
With regard to Measles, extra precautions are taken in connection
with disinfection of Measles-infected houses, the exclusion
of children (both infected children and also children from
infected houses) from schools, the closing of classes or whole
schools on acount of outbreaks of Measles, the distributing of
leaflets and posters, and the educating of parents to regard
Measles as a serious or dangerous infectious disease, and not as a
trivial complaint of childhood.
With regard to London, The County Council decided, on
November 8th, 1902, to include "Measles" in the term "Dangerous
Infectious Diseases" on and from January 1st, 1903, for
the purposes set out in Sections 60-66, 68-70, 72-74 of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891—a suggestion that was made to the
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