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Chicken-pox.
The period during which Chicken-pox was a notifiable disease,
expired on the 7th January, and from the beginning of the year to that
date, 12 cases were notified; these were distributed as follows:—Belsize
Ward 2, Central Ward 2, West End Ward 7, and Priory Ward 1.
So far as I am aware in no case was the diagnosis in doubt.
Whooping Cough.
This disease accounted for 15 deaths during the year, as compared
with 10 in 1902.
Measles.
8 deaths were recorded from this disease, as compared with 15 in
1902.
The mortality was 0.09 per 1000 of the population.
In the early part of the year, the London County Council obtained
the approval of the Local Government Board to include Measles amongst
the dangerous infectious diseases in so far as Sections 60, 61, 62, 63, 64
65, 68, 69, 70, 72, 73, and 74 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
apply.
The Sections in question, while they did not make the disease
compulsorily notifiable, extended to it provisions relating to isolation
and disinfection.
The operation of this law has now been in force since the 1st April,
and during this period 100 cases have been brought to my knowledge,
the sources of information of which were as follows:—
Cases notified by doctors 50
„ parents or guardians 30
„ schoolmasters 17
„ employer 1
Death Returns 2
100