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WHOOPING COUGH.
Whooping Cough was responsible for 33 deaths, which represent
a death-rate of .27 per 1,000 of the population. The death-rate for
England and Wales was .20, and that for the 76 Great Towns .24
per 1,000 of the population.
The following circular was delivered by hand at the doors of
the houses in the affected streets:—
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 are 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, to neglect, and to the consequent supervention of
Bronchitis and Pneumonia, which, with Diarrhoea, are the
complications that usually cause death in cases of Measles.
MEASLES commence with symptoms of a common cold,
sneezing, cough, running at the nose, redness and watery