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check outbreaks of the disease, which, with whooping cough,
are responsible for more deaths than all the other infectious
diseases put together.
BATTERSEA BOROUGH COUNCIL.
Measles.
Measles is unfortunately very prevalent in certain districts
of Battersea at the present time, and it is important that
precautions should be taken to prevent the spread of the
disease.
It cannot be too clearly understood that Measles is a most
dangerous disease, especially to very young children, and
large numbers of deaths occur from the disease yearly in #
Battersea, as well as in other Metropolitan districts, and the
disease is, as a rule, much more fatal than other forms of
dangerous infectious disease which the public regard with
greater dread.
Measles, though frequently occurring in a mild form, at
all times requires careful nursing, and particularly protection
from cold. Bronchitis and pneumonia are common complications,
and cause many deaths. These complications, which
greatly increase the danger to life, are largely preventable, and
it is highly desirable that medical advice should be obtained
with this object at an early stage of the disease.
Infected children should be kept from school for at least
one month, and other children from the same family attending
Infants' School must also be kept at home for fourteen days.
Rooms must be disinfected in all cases (by the Sanitary
Authority).
Intimation of fresh cases of measles should be made to the
undersigned.
G. Quin Lennane,
Medical Officer of Health.