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introduced from these into the Norwood Parochial Schools during
the last quarter of 1905, to be re-introduced from the latter into
the former afterwards. The 3 schools were disinfected.
MEASLES AND WHOOPING COUGH.
These two non-notifiable infectious diseases cause more deaths
than all the notifiable infectious diseases together. In the
Borough of Lambeth, during 1905, 96 and 79 deaths were
registered from Measles and Whooping Cough, giving death-rates
per 10,000 of the population of 3.07 and 2.5 respectively. In
London, during 1905, there were registered 1,715 and 1,507 total
deaths from Measles and Whooping Cough, giving corresponding
death-rates of 37 and 3.2 per 10,000 of the population
respectively.
Taking the Lambeth Registration Sub-Districts it will be seen
that Waterloo suffered most, and Brixton least, from Measles ;
whilst Lambeth Church First suffered most, and Norwood least,
from Whooping Cough (vide pages 63, 98-99).
The Inner Districts suffered (deaths per 10,000 of the population)
more than the Outer Districts, thus :—
Inner. Outer.
Whooping Cough 3.0 2.3
Measles 3.9 2.7
Comparing the Borough statistics for 1905 with those for the
old Parish for 10 years (1891-1900), it will be seen that there
has been a saving during 1905 of 48 deaths from Measles over
the average for that decennium, and a saving of 65 deaths from
Whooping Cough over the average during the same period.
Measles.
With regard to Measles, extra precautions are taken in connection
with disinfection of Measles-infected houses, exclusion of
children (both infected children and also children from infected