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and 1 each in West Greenwich and St. Nicholas. There were
5 cases in 1910, and 8 in 1909; 5 of these patients were
removed to the Hospital. There were 5 deaths from this
disease during the year. Particular enquiries were made
respecting the source of infection in each case, but in no way
did there appear to be any common origin.
Measles. Eight hundred and forty cases of Measles
were notified during the year, as compared with 969 during
the previous year, and 795, 497 and 1,245 in the years 1909,
1908 and 1907 respectively.
The ages and incidence of fatality of the disease was
as follows:—Of the total number, 32 were children
under one year of age, amongst which cases there occurred
11 fatalities, equal to a case mortality of 34 per cent. There
were 383 cases between one and five years of age, amongst
whom there were 26 deaths, giving a case mortality of 6.8
per cent. Between the ages of five to fifteen years there
were 424, with only 3 deaths at this age period, giving a
case mortality of 0.7 per cent. There was 1 case at ages
twenty-five to sixty-five with no death.
There were 16 cases of measles admitted to Hospital
for treatment, of which 4 were returned as not suffering
from that disease.
The case mortality for the whole district works out at
4.7 per cent.
In the early part of the year a Conference of the Medical
Officers of the London Cities and Boroughs, together with
the Medical Officer of the London County Council, with
representatives from the Board of Education and Local Government
Board, was held at the invitation of the Local
Government Board to discuss what additional measures, if
any, might be taken to deal with the question of Measles.
Points of difficulty which had arisen between the