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The defective conditions were attended to by the persons responsible after
receipt of notice in each case.
cerebro-spinal fever.
Three children, one under 5 years of age, and two aged between 5 and 15, were
notified as suffering from this disease. Isolation and treatment were carried out in a
hospital, but all three patients died.
Erysipelas.
The notifications of erysipelas numbered 75, and there were 2 deaths. Most of the
cases were notified from the Workhouse Infirmary and the General Hospitals and
14 of the patients were treated in one or other of these institutions.
Puerperal Fever.
The number of cases of this disease notified, viz., 4, was just about the average.
The number of deaths registered as due to this cause, viz., 2, was also about the
average.
In each case a visit was paid by one of the women inspectors and the premises
were disinfected.
Measles.
As already noted most of the information obtainable with regard to this disease
comes from the school teachers and during 1913 the returns made referred to 448.
This number is less than that for 1912 and much less than that for 1911.
The number of deaths was smaller than in either of the two previous years also,
32 as against 39 in 1912 and 64 in 1911. Of the deaths two-thirds occurred
amongst patients under 5 years ot age, the majority-13 out of 32-being of babies
more than 1 but less than 2 years old.
Visits are paid to all homes in which a case of measles is reported to have
occurred, and leaflets impressing the necessity for preventing the spread of infection
by isolation and the protection of the sufferer from the common sequels of the disease,
bronchitis and pneumonia, are explained to and left with those in charge of the
patient. At the same time arrangements are made for the carrying out of disinfection
after the termination of the disease.
Hospital Isolation of Measles. Patients suffering from measles, to the
number of 58, were isolated in the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board,
after the issue of a certificate by the Medical Officer of Health to the effect that
isolation could not be carried out at home.
The following table shows the number of cases ot measles and other infectious
diseases reported from schools and other Boroughs during 1913.
With regard to schools it may be stated that no classrooms were closed by the
Education Department of London County Council on account of measles.
With regard to schools it may be stated that no classrooms were closed by the
Education Department of London County Council on account of measles.