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Last year whooping cough caused 58 deaths. The following
circular was delivered by hand at the doors of the houses of the
streets affected:—
LEYTON URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL.
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
MEASLES AND WHOOPING COUGH.
MEASLES.
This is a disease which is far too apt to be regarded as
only a trivial one. Measles and Whooping Cough, however,
are responsible for more deaths among children than all the
other infectious diseases combined. THINK OF THAT ! !
It is chiefly because the disease is so lightly regarded
that it is so fatal; that is to say, that the custom of looking
upon the disease as "only the Measles" leads to carelessness in
its treatment, neglect, and the consequent supervention of
Bronchitis and Pneumonia, which with Diarrhœa are the
complications that usually cause death in cases of Measles.
MEASLES commences with symptoms of a common
cold, sneezing, cough, running at the nose, redness and watery
appearance of the eyes, headache and drowsiness. After some
days the rash appears; that is to say, that before the rash
tomes out Measles cannot be distinguished from a common