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Measles.
The prevalence of this disease necessitated the
closure of three of the Public Elementary Schools at
different periods. The advisability of this step was taken
only after due consideration, the principal being the
number of absentees, many of them not necessarily suffering
from the disease, but in houses where other
members of the family were afflicted.
Small Pox.
Owing to the prevalence of Small Pox in London
and the Districts immediately adjoining Twickenham the
Health Committee and the Council acting under my
advice prepared for any case or cases which might occur.
Scarlet Fever cases which at that time were isolated at
the Mereway Hospital were removed to an isolated
house then being rented by the Council and used for
convalescent patients (Scarlet Fever).
The Mereway Hospital having been thoroughly
disinfected was in readiness to receive Small Pox patients
on the 19th Jauuary, 1902 Such building was visited on
the 11th February, 1902, by an Inspector appointed by
the Local Government Board.
On the 22nd February, 1902, I sent the following
letter to all the Medical Practitioners in the neighbourhood
drawing attention to the difficulty in some cases of differential
diagnosis in Small Pox, Chicken Pox, and other
exanthematous diseases.