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for enabling Sanitary Authorities to obtain control of outbreaks.
What steps therefore can be further undertaken to improve the
existing means for dealing with this disease?
I have, I think, fully discussed the nature of the disease and
given statistical evidence of its ravages to justify the views I have
ventured to put forward for the consideration of the Committee.
It is clear, therefore, that the time has arrived when the efforts
of Sanitary Authorities must be assisted by further measures than
those which so far have proved inadequate to enable them to
control the disease. I shall therefore conclude this Report by
summarising the further steps which I desire to put forward for
the consideration of the Committee.
1. A compulsory system of modified notification with
increased hospital accommodation.
2. The exclusion of children under five years of age from
the Public Elementary Schools.
3. Parents to be compelled to report all suspicious cases
of illness to the Medical Officer of Health and
School Authorities, especially when Measles is prevalent.
4. The exclusion of children from School from infected
homes, whether they have had the disease or not.
(Signed) G. QUIN LENNANE,
Medical Officer of Health.
Ordered by the Health Committee to be circulated.
W. MARCUS WILKINS,
Town Clerk.