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The County Education Department have recently adopted the
following rule for the guidance of teachers:—
Children suffering from measles must be excluded for at least one
month.
Children coming from houses where measles exists, but who are not
themselves suffering with the disease, should be dealt with as
follows
A child attending other than an infants' school who has had
measles need not be excluded from attendance at school.
A child attending other than an infants' school who has not
had measles must be excluded from attendance at school
until the Monday following the expiration of 14 days
from the occurrence of the first case.
A child attending an infants' school, whether or not it has
had measles, must be excluded from attendance at school
until the Monday following the expiration of 14 days
from the occurrence of the last case.
Whooping Cough.—This complaint was responsible for 35 deaths
(33 in 1903, 17 in 1904), all of them of children under five years of
age. It was most prevalent in the first part of the year, and was a
continuation of an outbreak which began in the autumn of 1904, and
210 cases were notified from schools (see page 54). The fatal cases
were distributed in the Wards thusGrosvenor, 2 ; Victoria, 9;
Hamlet, 2; St. Margaret's, 1; St. John's, 16; Great Marlborough, 2;
Regent, 2 : and St. Anne, 1.

Calculated on tlie number of children under five years of age, the
rates per 1,000 were :—