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PUBLIC HEALTH (PREVENTION OF
TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS, 1925.
No action was taken under these regulations
during the year.
NON-NOTIFIABLE DISEASES.
Measles.
During the year 1,449 cases of Measles came to
my knowledge from the following sources :—
Schools 740
L.C.C. Ambulance Service 485
Other Hospitals 9
Medical Practitioners 64
Health Visitors 118
Sanitary Inspectors 25
Parents, etc. 8
All cases were visited, either by a Health Visitor
or the District Sanitary Inspector, according to the
age of the patient.
509 patients were removed to L.C.C. Special
Hospitals, and in 51 cases, nursing assistance was
provided by the Council, 509 nursing visits being
paid.
After various corrections of diagnosis and sifting
of "suspected" cases, there would appear to have
been a net total of 1,390 actual cases.
Information as to cases not already known to
them is passed on to the L.C.C., to enable that
authority to check the spread of infection in the
schools and similar information is sent to Sunday
Schools.
There were 17 deaths from measles during the
year.