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Medical postponements 11
Removed — Vaccination Officer
apprised 7
Removed, unknown, and not found 232
Measles.
32. There were 25 deaths from Measles, giving a death rate
of 0.20, compared with 0.18 and 0.33 in the two preceding
years. The death rate in London was 0 44; only three
Boroughs (Metropolitan) had a lower rate, viz.: Hampstead,
Chelsea and Kensington. Twenty-three of the patients were
under 5 years of age, one from 5 to 10, and one from 15 to 20.
10 were males and 15 females; 8 were in Woolwich parish,
14 in Plumstead, and 3 in Eltham, giving death rates of 0.19,
0 20 and 0.28 respectively.
All the deaths, and nearly all the cases occurred in the first
six months of the year, and 10 of the deaths occurred in the last
three weeks of May and the first week of June.
33. 661 Notifications of Measles were received from school
teachers and others, compared with 323 and 646 in the two
preceding years. The mortality was thus 3.8 per cent. of
notifications. There were doubtless many cases occurring in
families whence no children attended school, so that the real
case mortality was less than 3 8, but probably exceeded 3 0.
Evidently Measles is at the present time a more fatal disease
than Scarlet Fever.