§ DR. CAMERON (Glasgow, College)asked the Lord Advocate, Whether he can state the number of cases of, and of deaths from, measles, which took place in the last three months of 1887 in each of the parishes in the Island of Lewis; and whether in any of these parishes any steps were taken to relieve the sick, or beyond the closing of schools to check the spread of the disease; and, if so, what steps?
§ THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. J. H. A. MACDONALD) (Edinburgh and St. Andrew's Universities)My information is that in Stornoway burgh there were a large number of cases and four deaths; Stornoway parish, many cases and 18 867 deaths; Barvas parish, nearly 300 cases and one death; Lochs parish, 300 cases and 16 deaths; Uig parish, two cases and no deaths. The disease has been, on the whole, of a mild type; and in all these cases medical attendance was given, and the sick supplied with medicine and such necessaries as were ordered by the medical men. Isolation, wherever practicable, was insisted upon.