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It appears from these tables that whereas from 1891.1900
Woolwich had a somewhat higher measles mortality than
London, since that date the measles death.rate has greatly
diminished, and diminished much more in Woolwich than in
London.
28. Owing to the prevalence of measles, the Medical
Officer of the London County Council closed or excluded
unprotected children from 40 classes. In many cases this was
done immediately on the occurrence of one case. The period
of exclusion or closure was usually for a few days only, in
some cases for two weeks.
Every effort was made to prevent children under five from
attending school where measles was prevalent, and instructions
as to sanitary measures for dealing with measles were
left at the home of all notified cases and, where possible, the
woman inspector paid a visit to enforce personally the
directions.
The reason of the high mortality last year is the fact that
measles had prevailed very little in the two previous years,