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A communication, dated 11th April, was received from the Clerk of
the Metropolitan Asylums Board to the effect that for the present the
admission of non-pauper cases of Measles and Whooping Cough to the
Managers' Hospitals had been suspended.
A subsequent letter, dated 26th April, was received stating that
such suspension has now been removed.
Milkshops.
No cases of measles occurred in connection with milkshops.
Disinfection and Outworkers.
One hundred and ninety-seven rooms (165 houses) were disinfected
by the Public Health Department (see page 107), and the remainder were
disinfected by the tenants, medical practitioners giving certificates that
disinfection had been satisfactorily carried out.
Respecting outworkers and the articles disinfected by the Council
see pages 96 and 107.
Suggested Conference of Metropolitan Local Authorities—re
Measles.
The following letter was submitted to the Public Health and Housing
Committee:—
METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF WANDSWORTH.
Council House, Wandsworth, S.W.,
23rd December, 1913.
Dear Sir,
Measles.
This Council has on several occasions had under consideration
the subject of Mortality from Measles, and in July last sent to the
Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Chairman of the Medical
Research Committee, a resolution expressing the opinion that it
was vitally important to the Nation that scientific and medical
research should be instituted as to the cause and prevention of
Mealses, and as to the possibility of rendering children immune
from such disease.