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Deaths.
The total deaths occurring in the Parish were 70, and of this
number 30 were parishioners and 40 non-parishioners. Of residents
dying in institutions outside the district, the number was 26. The
deaths due to St. Martin's for these three months will therefore be
56, and this number will give a death-rate per 1,000 equal to 17.1
per annum.
Infectious Disease.
During these three months the parish has been comparatively
free from infectious disease, only 6 cases having been notified.
They were, 3 Typhoid, 1 Diphtheria, and 2 Scarlet Fever.
Measles.
Your Town Clerk received the following letter from the Clerk
of the London County Council, in reference to the advisability of
including Measles in the term "Dangerous and Infectious Disease":—
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL.
Spring Gardens, S.W.
l.sf December, 1900.
Measles.
Sir,
1 am directed to inform you that the Public Health Committee
of the Council have under consideration the question whether it is
advisable that the Council should include "Measles" in the term
"Dangerous and Infectious Disease," for the purposes set out in the
following sections of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891:—
Section 68, which prohibits, under a penalty, the exposure of
infected persons and things.
Section 60, which gives power to sanitary authorities to
require the cleansing and disinfection of infected premises, and
the disinfection or destruction of infected articles, and contains
other provisions as to compensation and shelter during disinfection.