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MEASLES.
As compared with the preceding year, there was a much
reduced prevalence of Measles.
Now that some Hospital provision has been made available
by the Metropolitan Asylums Board in respect to cases of Measles
and Whooping Cough, the question as to whether these two
diseases should be made compulsorily notifiable calls for further
consideration. Seeing that the extent of this accommodation is
very limited, and, therefore, soon becomes exhausted, I am disposed
to believe that the prompt visitation of as many as possible
of the cases which come to our knowledge from the Education
Authority and other sources, and the home visitation and distribution
of handbills of advice in those streets occupied by the
poorer classes, may furnish as good results as compulsory
notification, under the present circumstances.
In view of the increasing number of Scarlet Fever patients
requiring to be admitted to the Hospitals and of the necessity of
having sufficient accommodation for such patients, the admission
of cases of Measles and Whooping-cough had to be temporarily
suspended in 1914.