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The precautions adopted in Battersea for dealing with Measles
include notification, home visiting and the securing of such isolation,
especially of the younger children, as is practicable, early medical
attention and provision of nursing attendance and removal to the
Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums' Board, where the home
conditions are unsuitable and unsatisfactory, etc.
Whooping-Cough.
During 1926 there were 709 cases of Whooping-Cough notified
under the Battersea (Measles and Whooping-Cough) Regulations,
1922 to the Medical Officer of Health and 501 additional cases were
reported from the public elementary Schools and other sources.
There were 13 deaths registered from this disease, the deathrate
being 0.076, as compared with 20 deaths and a death-rate of
0.116 in 1925, 17 deaths and a death-rate of 0.099 in 1924, 16
deaths and a death-rate of 0.095 in 1923 and 22 deaths and a deathrate
of 0.13 in 1922.
The total number of cases notified or otherwise reported during
1926 was 1,210 as compared with 1,320 in 1925, 816 in 1924 and
1,024 in 1923, the decrease in 1926 compared with 1925 being
8.33 per cent.
The disease, with measles, was made compulsorily notifiable
in Battersea in 1922, and the precautionary measures taken against
the disease are similar to those in connection with the latter
disease, in view of the danger to life in the younger children.
TUBERCULOSIS.
During 1926 there were 344 cases of Tuberculosis (all forms)
notified in Battersea as compared with 335 in 1925.