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MEASLES.
We received information of 203 cases in comparison with 75 in 1913, 202 in
1912, 101 in 1911, 234 in 1910, 139 in 1909, and 86 in 1908. There were only
11 deaths or a rate of 0.24 per thousand in comparison with a decennial rate of
0.34. Of these only 3 belonged to St. Giles and Bloomsbury and 8 to the
Holborn District. Seven of the eleven were under 2 years of age.
During the year the Education Department of the London County Council
excluded all the unprotected children from certain classes, in the Infants'
Department, of the undermentioned schools from and up to the dates specified:—
St. Alban's Class Boom C. January 27th to 6th February.
Do. „ C. March 13th to 27th.
Do. „ A. March 26th to 8th April.
Do. „ C. May 1st to 15th.
Rosebery Avenue „ A. February 17th to 13th March.
Do. „ B. & D. February 27th to 13th March.
Do. „ C. March 2nd to 13th.
Do. „ B. May 18th to 29th.
Do. „ A. June 19th to 3rd July.
Do. „ A. B. &D. July 2nd to 22nd.
St. John-the-Evangelist „ C. March 12th to 20th.
Do. „ C. June 8th to 19th.
Christ Church „ under5years July 15th to 22nd.
Since the Measles Order of the Local Government Board of the 30th May,
1911, in addition to Poor Law cases, persons that cannot be satisfactorily isolated
and nursed at home can be removed to hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums
Board, on the recommendation of the Medical Officer of Health, provided accommodation
is available. Nine cases were so removed during the year.
WHOOPING COUGH.
Whooping cough was returned as the cause of 9 deaths during the year, in
comparison with 6 in the preceding year and 3 in 1910. 3 of the deaths
were in St. Giles and Bloomsbury and 6 in the Holborn District. All were
children under 5 years of age, 6 being under 2 years. The death-rate was 0.19
per 1,000 in comparison with the decennial average of 0.21.