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Dispensary tickets are given to those children needing treatment.
Cases of insufficient food and poverty are referred to philanthropic
or charitable institutions or to the poor law. Arrangements are
made for the disinfection of the rooms after the termination of the
case. The number of cases visited was 247, the number of visits
363. The rooms were disinfected in 154 tenements.
Distribution.—In 1909 and 1910—deaths from measles
occurred chiefly in the following streets:—
Albert Street, Bastwick Street, Coldbath Square and Buildings,
Cumming Street, Cyrus Street, Donegal Street, Easton Street,
George Yard, Guinness Buildings, Lever Street, Margaret Street,
Masons Place, Risinghill Street, St. Helena Street.
What more might be done.—In this connection, the following
might be thought worthy of further consideration:—
1. The rigid enforcement of the adopted clauses of the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891. This would have
high educational value and would doubtless prevent
much needless exposure of patients to rough weather
conditions and their contact with other children.
2. The distribution of leaflets of instructions by registrars
of births, by midwives, by district nurses and district
visitors, and by those immediately engaged in the
administration of the Notification of Births Act.
3. The better co-ordination of effort between the poor-law
authorities and the health authorities, and the various
nursing associations.
4. The treatment in hospital of cases for whom suitable
nursing is not obtainable or inexpedient at home. The
Metropolitan Asylums Board have allocated a certain
number of beds for the treatment of poor law cases,
and there is every prospect that before long other
patients also may have this advantage offered to them.
5. The adoption of poor law or municipal district nursing.