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During the year 175 cases were notified to the Department. This
disease is compulsorily notifiable in the Borough, but information of
many cases is received from Head Teachers of Schools. In 30 cases the
services of the nurses of the District Nursing Associations were made
use of. 5 cases were removed to hospital. 4 deaths from Measles
occurred during the year, all of these being children under five years of
age.
German Measles.
Cases of this disease ceased to be compulsorily notifiable on 1st
January, 1920.
Whooping Cough.
Cases of this disease are not compulsorily notifiable, our chief
source of knowledge is derived from the School Teachers' notifications.
Arrangements are in existence whereby the nursing facilities of
the two Nursing Associations are available without cost to the parents,
and in special circumstances cases are received into the isolation hospitals
of the Metropolitan Asylums Board. The number of deaths from
this disease in the year was six, all being children under five years of
age.
Diarrhœa and Enteritis.
During the year 16 deaths from Diarrhoea and Enteritis occurred
among Hampstead children under 2 years of age. The following table
gives a comparison in the death-rates from these diseases in Hampstead,
London, and England and Wales during 1921: —
Death-rate per 1000 births.
Hampstead 9.5
London 21.3
England and Wales 15.5