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MEASLES AND WHOOPING COUGH
These two non-notifiable infectious diseases cause moredeaths
than all the notifiable infectious diseases together.
In the Borough, during 1912, 97 and 55 corrected
deaths were registered from measles and whooping
cough, giving corrected death-rates per 10,000 of the populations
of 3.3 and 1.8 respectively.
The annual average numbers of deaths from measles
and whooping cough respectively during the two decennia
1891-1900 (Parish) and 1901-10 (Borough), are 145.6 and
110.4 (measles) and 143.7 and 91.8 (whooping cough).
The Inner Districts suffered (deaths per 10,000 of the
population) more than the Outer Districts, thus:—
Inner. Outer.
Whooping Cough 2.6 1.3
Measles 5.6 1.5
Of the Lambeth Registration Sub-Districts, Lambeth
Church suffered most, and Norwood least, from bothmeasles
and whooping cough.
Measles.
Of the 97 deaths from Measles in the Borough during
1912, 91 (i.e., 93.8 per cent.) occurred amongst children
under 5 years of age, showing that measles is a disease
of young children, and especially fatal to such. 19 of
the deaths (i.e., 19.6 per cent.) occurred amongst infants
under 1 year of age.
With regard to Measles, extra precautions are taken in
connection with disinfection of Measles-infected houses, exclusion
of children (both infected children and also children
from infected houses) from schools, the closing of classes or
whole schools on account of outbreak of Measles, the
*Made notifiable by orders of the County Council from and
including March 13th, 1912, throughout the Administrative County of
London, such orders having been duly approved by the Local Government
Board.