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on the first appearance of illness they may be kept as home
and properly treated.
7. When a child at any house is suffering from Measles,
no neighbour's child, or neighbour accompanied by a child,
must be admitted, nor should the child ill with Measles be
allowed to play with the other children for a month after the
appearance of the rash.
8. Before the child attacked returns to School the following
measures should be carried out. All articles of clothing
worn by the sick child, and the bedding and hangings of
the sick room should be washed and put out to air for some
days. All washable articles of furniture in the room should
washed. The walls of the room, if papered, should be cleaned
down with dough, the dough being at once burned. If not
papered, the walls should be limewashed. In all cases the
ceilings should be limewashed. The floor should be thoroughly
scrubbed. The window should be left open for several
days, and the window curtains removed so as to admit as
much light as possible. The skin of the child who has been
ill should be throughly cleansed by several washings with
soap and warm water.
9. In all cases it is essential to have a pure atmosphere
and all smells from insanitary conditions such as leaky and
defective drains, stopped water closets, foul accumulation of
refuse, etc., should be at once reported to the Sanitary Inspector
at his Offices, and all such communications are treated
in the strictest confidence.
10. Measles has been added to those required to be
notified, and any cases should be immediately notified to the
Medical Officer of Health.
GEORGE HOPE, d.p.h., l.r.c.p., etc.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Beaconsfield House, Hanwell, W.
Public Health Department,
Urban District Council, Greenford.
The Revocation of the order for compulsory notification
of Measles has now been approved by the L.G.B