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Among the non-notifiable disorders, Measles was
prevalent during the latter part of the year, and there
were many cases of Whooping Cough.
Our Zymotic death rate equalled .43 per 1,000.
The increase of knowledge, among certain classes,
relative to the seriousness of Measles, has, I consider,
led to much more care and attention being paid to the
children attacked by this disorder, and its frequent
dangerous complications are better recognised and
treated. In all cases of Measles early medical attention
should be sought. Of the total number of 765
notifiable cases, 475 were removed to the Isolation
Hospital.
Infantile Death Rate.
Owing to favourable climatic conditions, there was
a marked absence of epidemic summer Diarrhoea and
allied disorders among young children, and we have
the satisfactory low infantile death rate of 59.0. Much
is being done to educate the mothers of infants with
reference to the proper bringing-up of their little ones,
and the good work accomplished by Mrs. Copeland
the Sanitary Inspector, in connection with this
important work, deserves great praise, and is, I feel
sure, no mean factor in the preservation of infant life.
It is gratifying to learn that, on the health visitor's
re-visits, she finds her instructions and advice have
been carefully attended to and acted upon.
Isolation Hospital.
This institution continues to be of valuable service
for the reception of the majority of the notifiable
infectious disorders, such as Scarlatina, Diphtheria,
and Enteric Fever. During the year 459 cases of Scarlatina
(including forty-seven from Hanwell) and seventynine
cases of Diphtheria (inclusive of nineteen from
Hanwell, and one from Chiswick) received treatment,