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Visiting and Nursing.-820 visits were paid to families in which were
one or more cases of measles by the Health Visitors. The assistance of
District Nurses was called in 16 instances and 124 visits were paid.
Institutional Treatment.-165 were admitted to hospitals of these
34, mostly adults, were admitted to the London Fever Hospital as paying
patients; 131 patients were admitted to the Metropolitan Asylums
Board, the Infirmary and other hospitals.
In consequence of the occurrence of Measles amongst the children
attending the Infants Departments of the 17 undermentioned schools, the
County Council decided to apply the scheme for the fuller control of the
disease by the special daily visitation of school nurses to schools. The
co-operation thus provided led to an earlier recognition of illness among
school children, thereby enabling the Health Visitors to follow up cases
of measles at an earlier date and secure adequate nursing and medical
attention where required :-
Schools.
Raneleigh Road, 18th January and
28th February.
Millbank, 28th January.
St. George's Road, 23rd January.
St. Gabriel, 23rd January.
Holy Trinity, 23rd January.
Christ Church, 23rd January.
St. James-the-Less, 29th January.
St. Matthew's, 18th February.
Pulteney, 19th February.
Schools.
St. Peter's, 25th February.
St. Martin-in-the-Fields, (N.), 26th
February.
Burdett Coutts, 28th February.
Brompton, 12th March.
St. James's and St. Peter's, 16th
March.
St. Patriarchs, 21st March.
Christ Church, 3rd April.
St. Paul's, 14th April.
Exposure of Persons suffering from Measles in Public Vehicles..
It having come to the notice of the Council that persons suffering from
Measles were using taxi-cabs, omnibuses and trains and especially to
a case in which a person so suffering had been sent from a convalescent
home in Wimbledon to a hospital in Westminster in such manner, the
attention of hospital authorities was called to the fact that Section 68
of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891 applied, along with other
Sections to measles in London by an Order made by the London County
Council on the 20th January, 1903, approved by the Local Government
Board, whereby such exposure was forbidden and was punishable.
Influenza..This was certified as the cause of 56 deaths (20 in 1923,
95 in 1922), 25 males and 31 females, giving a death rate of 0'3 9 per
1,000, the rate for London being 0'36, the difference being accounted
for bv the larger proportion of older persons in Westminster : 32 of
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