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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Bethnal Green 1911
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1911 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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6. Where children are found by the
Inspectors to be without medical attendance,
pressure should be exerted upon the parent to
obtain proper medical aid.
As a result of the recommendations of the
Conference, the following memorandum was issued by
the Local Government Board.
Local Government Board,
Whitehall, S.W.
10th April, 1911.
Sir,
MEASLES IN LONDON.
I am directed by the Local Government Board
to state that they have had under consideration
the present outbreak of measles in London, and
that on the suggestion of the President their
Medical Officer has conferred with the Medical
Officers of the London County Council and of the
various Borough Councils as to the measures which
may be taken for dealing with it.
At the conference the view was generally
expressed that Sanitary Authorities have been
hampered in their efforts to check the spread of the
disease by the absence of early information of
cases, and the question was considered whether
this difficulty would be removed if measles were
made a notifiable disease.