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2. "That a hand-bill containing information and
suggestions to parents on the subject of the treatment of
measles be printed and issued."
This hand-bill was as follows:—
THE BOARD OF WORKS FOR THE ST. GILES DISTRICT.
Measles.
Measles at the present time being very prevalent in the District
the Sanitary Committee of the Board has directed me to call the attention
of parents and guardians to the importance of checking the spread
of the disease, which otherwise is likely to cause serious mortality
amongst young children.
The first symptoms of Measles are running at the eyes and nose, with
repeated sneezing, and a puffy appearance of the face and eyelids,
followed in a few days with a rash which is raised and red or purple in
colour.
All children developing these symptoms should be at once isolated,
even before the eruption appears.
The sick child should be confined to bed from the first symptom of
illness, and kept warm. Medical aid should be at once obtained as
there is great danger of bronchitis and lung complications, which being
frequently overlooked, cause death.
It is very advisable that all children from an infected family should
be kept away from school until the sick child is convalescent. The
patient is usually well in about fourteen days from the appearance of
the rash.
S. R. LOVETT,
Medical Officer of Health.
3. "That the attention of the Local Government Board
be again directed to the fact that no steps have yet been
taken by that board for including measles in the list of
diseases notifiable under the Public Health (London) Act,
1891."