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They were all investigated—two of the tenements were dirty
and verminous, the others were clean.
No source of infection was found.
Three of the patients had recently had measles
SMALL-POX.
No case of small-pox was notified in Finsbury in 1912. The
Medical Officer of Health was asked to see one case suspected
to be small-pox. It proved to be a case of chicken-pox.
Notices were received from Port Medical Officers of 10 oversea
small-pox contacts proceeding to Finsbury. One gave an
incorrect address, but was eventually traced.
They were all visited daily until the incubation period was well
passed.
MEASLES AND HOOPING COUGH.
Measles.—This disease is not notifiable. In 1912 notice of 625
cases was received from the London County Council Education
Department, from head teachers of schools, from school visitors,
from doctors, from other borough councils, from relieving officers,
from registrars of births and deaths, from sanitary inspectors,
superintendents of dwellings, and from parents and guardians.
The sections of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, which
refer to the cleansing and disinfection of premises and materials,
and to contact with, or exposure of, infected persons and things,
have been extended to measles. These are Sections 60-65, 68-7C,
and 72-74.
By the Metropolitan Asylums (Measles) Order, 1911, dated
May 30th, 1911, the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board
were made available for the reception of non-pauper cases of
measles.