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"vaccination sores should be carefully dressed with antiseptic
"precautions until they heal": the regulations of the Local
Government Board for Public Vaccinators, under the recent
Vaccination Act, give full directions for this being done.
Measles.
42. There were 59 deaths from Measles, compared with 68
and 3 in the two preceding years. Fifteen deaths occurred in
the first quarter, 41 in the second, and 3 in the third.
43. These numbers shew that an epidemic of Measles raged
in the beginning of the year.
By means of the action you had taken in asking the School
Board to call their teachers' attention to their printed regulations
re notifying infectious diseases, I began, at the commencement
of the year, to receive intimations as to children
away from school on account of Measles in their home. In
the course of the year I received altogether 609 such notifications.
Several teachers, however, either did not receive, or did
not attend to, the School Board's instructions; for on the 10th
February I was informed that 71 children, out of 142, were
absent from the Knee Hill Board School on account of Measles,
and, two days later, I was informed that 141 children were
absent from Eglinton Boad School for the same reason. In
both cases, this was the first intimation that I had received of
the existence of Measles at these Schools. The Infant Departments
of both these Schools were closed for a period of six
weeks.
44. Later on it became necessary to close the Infant
Departments of the following schools:—Vicarage Boad, Slade,
Conway Boad, High Street and Plumstead Boad. These
latter schools were closed for five weeks only. The first of