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(L) MEASLES.
Measles was not a notifiable disease during 1931, which was
an inter-epidemic year. Only 37 cases were notified by Head
Teachers as having occurred amongst children of school age. No
deaths were certified as having been caused by Measles.
At the time of writing the biennial epidemic has got well under
way, and your Council have decided to make notifiable the first
case in each household under five years of age. Arrangements have
been made for 13 beds at the Isolation Hospital to be made available
for severe cases of complicated Measles. A certain number of cases
have also been admitted to Whipps Cross Hospital.
(M) WHOOPING COUGH.
Whooping Cough was not notifiable during 1931, but 520 school
cases were notified by Head Teachers. The total number of deaths
was 14, or a mortality of 2.7 per 100 cases. This mortality compares
with 11 deaths from Diphtheria amongst 324 cases notified (or
3.4 per 100 cases) and 2 deaths from Scarlet Fever amongst 451 cases
notified (or 0.44 per 100 cases). No requests for Hospital removal
were received, and it must again be stressed, as with Measles, that
the seriousness of this disease is not sufficiently appreciated.