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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 1903, 130 and 126 deaths were
registered from Measles and Whooping Cough, giving death-rates
per 10,000 of the population of 4.2 and 4.1 respectively. In
London, during 1903, there were registered 2,054 and 1,631 total
deaths from Measles and Whooping Cough, giving corresponding
death-rates of 4.5 and 3.5 per 10,000 of the population
respectively.
Taking the Lambeth Registration Sub-Districts, it will be seen
that Kennington First and Lambeth Church Second suffered most,
and Brixton and Norwood least, from Measles; whilst Lambeth
Church Second and First suffered most, and Brixton and
Kennington Second least, from Whooping Cough (vide
pages 70).
The Inner Districts suffered (deaths per 10,000 of the population)
twice as much as the Outer Districts, thus:—
Inner. Outer.
Whooping Cough 7.1 2.9
Measles 6.3 3.4
Comparing the Borough statistics for 1903 with those for the
old Parish for 10 years (1891-1900), it will be seen that there
has been a saving during 1903 of 14 deaths from Measles over
the average for that decennium, and a saving of 18 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, exclusion of
children (both infected children and also children from infected
houses) from schools, the closing of classes or whole schools of