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Of the 178 deaths which occurred outside the district, 168
were deaths in public institutions. In addition 33 deaths
occurred in public institutions within the district; so that a
total of 201 deaths or nearly 26 per cent of all the deaths
occurred in public institutions. The percentage of deaths in
public institutions for the last seven years was as follows: —
1905 9
1906 15
1907 22
1908 23
1909 25
1910 23
1911 26
MEASLES.
The past year has been characterised by an unusual prevalence
of Measles, not only in Acton, but also in many other parts
of the country, and especially in the administrative county of
London. The disease has shown a remarkable capacity to
spread; and, judging from the heavy mortality, it appears to
have been exceedingly virulent in type. The regular recurrence
of Measles in epidemic form has naturally led administrators
to consider the question of the control of the disease, but so
far no measure has been uniformly successful. In no sanitary
district, up to the present, can the disease be said to have been
controlled. The occurrence of so serious an epidemic last year
in different parts of the country proved that under present
social conditions no measures have yet been devised for the
effectual control or prevention of measles. The special
difficulties in the way of controlling Measles have led some
workers to regard the disease as beyond the scope of our
present administrative methods and to question the efficacy on