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The amount of disinfection carried out by the Council has increased
considerably in late years, and this is in no small measure due to the
practice of the Council to disinfect after all cases of measles coming to
the notice of the Sanitary Authority, and the clothes, etc., of verminous
school children and others undergoing cleansing at the cleansing station.
Disinfection is also carried out upon request in cases of noninfectious
illness, a small charge being made. The number of cases
where such disinfection was carried out was 235, the amount received
in fees for this work being £55 2s. 6d.
With regard to measles, the London County Council in the early
part of 1903 obtained the approval of the Local Government Board for
the inclusion of measles amongst the dangerous infectious diseases
in so far as Sections 60-65, 68-70 and 72-74, Public Health (London) Act,
1891, apply. These sections, while they do not make the disease compulsorily
notifiable, extend to it the provisions relating to isolation and
disinfection. During the year I have received information respecting
142 cases of measles, and in all of these cases disinfection was carried
out.