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Copy of Leaflet.
Lambeth Vestry.
PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED
during
MEASLES.
The Sanitary Committee of the Lambeth Vestry desire
to direct the attention of parents and others,
having the care of young children, to the
importance of treating Measles properly and
checking its spread.
In Lambeth during the last ten years, 1544 deaths have
been registered from Measles, but it would be necessary to
increase this number three- or four-fold, if we were to
include also the deaths from bronchitis, inflammation of
the lungs, etc., which are often the after-consequences of
Measles; indeed, Measles kills, directly and indirectly,
more persons (chiefly children) than all the notifiable
infectious diseases put together, and very many more than
Scarlet Fever.
Whenever Measles breaks out in a household, it is of the
greatest importance to at once isolate the patient or
patients from the other inmates of the house, and especially
to prevent all children from the infected house mixing with
other children in the street or garden, at day or Sunday
schools, or elsewhere, as the disease is readily transmitted
both from person to person and through the medium of
clothes.