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The Metropolitan Asylums Board now receive into their hospitals
cases of measles on the recommendation of the Medical Officer of
Health, who is required to furnish the Board with certain particulars
regarding the case. Hospital treatment for measles on any practicable
scale cannot be expected to exercise much effect in checking the spread
•of the disease, but it may do much to lessen the mortality by saving the
lives of those patients for whose recovery skilled nursing, plenty of
good food and healthy surroundings, are necessary, and who are unable
to obtain these necessities in their own homes. The total number of
Hampstead patients removed to the Board's hospitals during the year
was 7.
Most of the cases of measles arc reported to the Medical Officer of
Health, principally by school teachers, and the following is a list of
the sources of information :—
Cases notified by medical practitioners 2
,, school teachers 122
„ employers and others 17
From deaths returns 1
142
The 142 cases occurred in 99 houses.
In 73 houses there was 1 case in the house.
,,17 „ there were 2 cases ,,
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,, 21 house ,, 5 ,, ,,