HC Deb 18 April 1905 vol 145 cc437-8
DR. THOMPSON

To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland why the Local Government Board for Ireland have omitted measles from the schedule of infectious diseases, in view of the character of this disease.

(Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) The infectious diseases to which the Infectious Disease (Notification) Act, 1889, applies are specified in Section 6 of the Act, and do not include measles. Power is, however, given to the sanitary authority by Section 7 to order, subject to the Board's approval, that the Act shall apply in their district, permanently or temporarily, to measles or any other infectious disease not mentioned in the Act.