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Disinfection of premises and clothing has been systematically
carried out.
MEASLES.
There were 3 deaths during the year. Death-rate, .02 per
1,000 of the population.
1,156 cases of Measles and 103 of German Measles were notified.
The Health Visitors ipaid 1,208 visits to these cases. 1 case
was nursed by Nurses from the Essex County Nursing Association.
WHOOPING COUGH.
There were 3 deaths during the vear. Death-rate per 1,000
of the population, .02.
1 of these deaths occurred in a child under one year of age, 1
between one and two. years, and 1 between two and five years.
The Health Visitors visited 177 cases.
DIARRHœA AND ENTERITIS.
Diarrhœa and Enteritis caused 22 deaths, 18 of which were
of infants under one year of age, and 4 between one and two
years.
Of these, 3 died at the following Hospitals:—Queen's Hospital,
1; Royal Free1 Hospital, 1; and Queen Mary's Hospital, 1.
Our death-rate from Diarrhoea and Enteritis under two years
was lO'O per 1,000 births.
CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS.
1 cases of Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis have been notified during
the year. Two cases terminated fatally.