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At the Conference of Metropolitan Cities and Boroughs 011 matters relating
to Public Health, it was resolved:—
(a) (1) That a better organisation is desirable in London for the control
of measles in schools.
(2) That during a serious outbreak of measles children under five
years of age should be excluded from school attendance.
(3) That compulsory notification of measles is desirable.
(4) That the cleansing of infants' departments and of the furniture,
lower walls and floors thereof, shall take place once a week.
(5) That accommodation should be provided in the Metropolitan
Asylums Board Hospitals for urgent non-pauper cases of measles.
(/>) That in the interests of public health the school regulations should
provide that all children from houses infected with measles should be
prohibited from school attendance.