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they obtained, an interview with the President of the Local Government Board with
reference thereto. At such interview the difficulties set forth in the memorial of the
Board of Works for the Limehouse District were discussed; and subsequently the
Managers, upon the recommendation of your Committee, suggested to the Local
Government Board that certain clauses, numbers 56 and 64 of the Bill, should be
amended by making "it incumbent upon all Local Authorities either to provide the
requisite Hospital accommodation for their districts, or failing their so doing within
a specified time, to contract with the Managers of the Metropolitan Asylum District
for the reception into their Hospitals of persons other than paupers who may be
suffering from contagious or infectious diseases."
The withdrawal of the Bill subsequent to its second reading, however, left this allimportant
question in abeyance.
It will be seen from the foregoing that the subject upon which the Limehouse
Board of Works have memoralised the Managers has already been fully considered
and dealt with, and that the Managers used their best endeavours to obtain through
the Local Government Board the requisite authority to receive into their Hospitals,
and if necessary, powers to provide additional accommodation for, Patients other
than those of the Pauper class. It now rests with the several Sanitary Authorities
either collectively or individually, to take the matter up and deal with it as they
may think best.
Your Committee recommend that a copy of this Report be sent to the Limehouse
District Board of Works as a reply to their memorial.
(Signed) EDWIN H. GALSWORTHY, Chairman.
MEASLES.
Measles was very prevalent, and caused 142 deaths (the highest
number in the zymotic class), all, with the exception of ten, amongst
children under the age of five years. It is very much to be regretted
that people do not look upon this disease from a sufficiently serious
point of view; indeed, occasionally, they even put other children in
the sick room, in order that they may take the disease and "get it
over." Parents are also not sufficiently careful to protect the convalescent
patient from the chance of taking cold. It must be borne in
mind that, though the deaths from simple uncomplicated measles are
extremely few, the inflammatory chest affection, so commonly
accompanying the disease, often leads to a fatal result.
SCARLATINA.
Scarlatina comes next in the order of fatality, causing 93 deaths.
Many of these, however, were from the subsequent kidney
affection, which is always so very likely to follow the acute
disease, and which is also said to be more frequent after a slight
than a severe attack. No child or person having been the subject of