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The actual numbers notified year by year were 577, 802, 561,
1,036, 478, 245, 436, 898, and 384 from 1903 to 1911 respectively.

The deaths year by year were 69, 60, 31, 115, 43, 38, 86, 73,
and 85 from 1903 until 1911.
The largest number of cases and deaths were in 1906, when
the disease was very prevalent.
The cases are visited by the Lady Sanitary Inspector, who
gives the parents suitable advice as to nursing and feeding the
patients. A leaflet of instruction is left at the house, and
dispensary tickets given for those children needing treatment.
The dirtier tenements are disinfected at the end of the case.
The rooms were disinfected in 156 tenements. The number of
cases visited was 250, the number of visits 397.
From 1909 to 1911, deaths from measles occurred chiefly in
the following streets :—Baldwin Street (4), Bastwick Street (7).
Cumming Street (4), Donegal Street (11), George Yard (4),
Guinness Buildings (6), Lever Street (5), Margaret Street (4),
Risinghill Street (6), Southampton Street (4), St. Helena Street
(6), Warren Street (5), and White Lion Street 4 deaths.
Hooping Cough.—This is not a notifiable disease. Information
of cases is generally received from schools and from other
bodies and persons who send notice of measles. In this way,
the addrisses of 119 cases were obtained in 1911. The deaths
numbered 27 ; all except one were under five years of age.
Disinfection is not done as a routine after recovery.