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them was closed on the 29th May and the last on the 7th
June.
45. The good effect of the closure of the schools was marked.
The spread of the disease at each end of the parish was
obviously stopped by tbe closure at Abbey Wood and Eglinton
Eoad. The good effect of tbe closure of the other five schools
is seen from the deaths registered from measles in each of the
eight weeks following the 14th May, viz., 4, 4, 4, 11, 2, 4, 2, 0.
46. The school notification of measles was of much service
in enabling me to take early measures for the closure of the
above schools. It would be more useful if more uniformly and
more carefully employed. Evidently several teachers omitted
to notify, and it was found, on visiting the house, in a large
number of cases, that the patient had recovered some time.
47. Each house was visited on notification, a paper of
instructions left, and means taken to prevent other children in
tbe house from attending other schools (including Sunday
Schools) than that from which the notification had been
received.
48. As only the Infant Departments were closed, there was
no serious interference with education, indeed, it may well be
doubted whether it was not altogether a good thing for the
infants affected to be kept from school and left free to play out
of doors in the summer months of May and June.
49. In Woolwich the epidemic was more serious than in
Plumstead, the deaths being 50 per cent, of population more
than in this parish.
Phthisis.
50. There were 86 deaths from Phthisis, compared with 96,
81, and 96 in the three preceding years.