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The information thus obtained will necessarily
require to be followed up. Probably many cases
will be reported which are not measles, and
arrangements should be made for obtaining a proper
diagnosis, for securing that the cases are properly
isolated, and for urging on the parents the need of
obtaining medical aid where such aid is required.
No doubt the Council's official who visits the
home will be able to do much in the way of giving
advice as to the care and nursing of the patients.
Removal to Hospital.
The Board have been in correspondence with
the Metropolitan Asylums Board, and it is understood
that that Board will agree to receive cases of
measles on the recommendation of the Medical
Officer of Health. The accommodation of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board for this purpose is
necessarily limited, and arrangements will be made
by which preference will be given to those cases
most needing hospital treatment
The Board may also remind the Borough
Council that they have power to provide temporary
hospitals, and if at a subsequent date the amount
of accommodation for measles which is available in
the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board
should come to be exhausted, this power might
have to be utilised.