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4. Verbal advice will be given, and written instructions left at the
house.
5. An offer will be made, free of all charge, to perform any necessary
disinfection of rooms, bedding, &c.
6. The house will be visited from time to time in order to see if
the necessary precautions are being observed to prevent the spread of
the disease.
7. Arrangements will be made by the Medical Officer to examine,
without fee, specimens of sputum from persons the nature of whose
illness is dubious, in order to bring about a prompt diagnosis of the
disease.
WHOOPING COUGH.
There were sixteen deaths from Whooping Cough.
The lax way in which parents allow the little patients to mix with
other children is the cause of the disease spreading, for it is so notoriously
contagious that the most rigid isolation should be insisted upon.
Whooping Cough is a serious affection, and with its frequent complica
tion—broncho-pneumonia—a very fatal disease.
I purpose shortly to bring out a leaflet on this disease.
SMALL POX.
There was one case of Small Pox notified during the year; a nursemaid
who contracted the disease in Paddington. She was promptly
removed to the South Mimms Hospital.
The outbreak of Small Pox in London is disquieting, but if the public
will avail themselves of the protecting power of re-vaccination they need
have little alarm.