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Wandsworth 1887

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]

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	What plan of Notification is in force in your town ?			Do you regard yours as the best system of Notification ; or what other plan would you prefer ?	Does the plan work without friction with Householders or Medical Practitioners ?	Have many cases occnrred in which legal penalties require to be enforced against persons refusing to notify ?	REMARKS.
	a. Compulsory on Practitioner in attendance.	b. Compulsory on Householders.	c. Compulsory on both.				REMARKS.
CHESTER (Dr. Kenyon),			On both	Yes	Yes	None	Notification clauses have been in operation since the beginning of the year. Practically the clauses against householders operate only indirectly, the medical men almost exclusively reporting
CROYDON (Dr. Philpot).			On both	Yes	Yes	No; difficulty in getting evidence such as would convict has prevented our taking proceedings against the only medical man who refuses to notify
DERBY (Dr. Iliffe).			On both Certainly; no other plan can possibly be successful		Yes	Twice in 9 years
DEWSBURY (Dr. Watts).	Compulsory on practitioner			Yes	Yes	No
DUNDEE (Dr. Anderson).			On both	Yes	Yes	None
EDINBURGH (Dr. Littlejohn).	Compulsory on practitioner			I decidedly, after 9 years' experience, think our plan the best	Yes, householders are pleased with it, especially hotel-keepers and lodging-house keepers; medical men equally so	None
GREENOCK (Dr. Wallace).	No	Yes	No	Would prefer compulsory notification on both medical practitioner and householder	At first there was some friction, but by moral suasion and knowledge of favourable results, this has been gradually and almost entirely overcome	Comparatively few, moral suasions having become in most cases successful
GUILDFORD (Dr. Morton).			On both	The best	Yes	No; but warning has been given
HALIFAX (Dr. Ainley).			On both	We consider it very good	Yes	None	Of course the householder never notifies when a doctor is attending; if no doctor is called in, then he does
HARTLEPOOL (Dr. Morison).	Compulsory on practitioner			Yes	Yes	None
HUDDERSFIELD (Dr. Carnham).			On both	Yes, on the whole	Fairly so	Not many
JARROW (Dr. Munro).			On both	Yes	No friction except with one medical practitioner, who only notifies the existence of cases, leaving the M.O.H. to diagnose them	Only in the case of this one practitioner
LANCASTER (Dr. Parker)			On both	Ye?	Yes	None
LEEK (Dr. Ritchie).	Voluntary notification by all medical men sent to sanitary inspector, not to M O. H.; fee 2/6, paid by the Sanitary Authority			It answers admirably; no medical man objects	Yes	None
LEICESTER (Dr. Tonkins).			On both	The dual notification has worked well for 8 years	Yes	None. A few cases have been threatened, where the friends of children suffering from scarlet fever have had no doctor in attendance and have simply neglected to report
LLANDUDNO (DR. Rees)			On both	I believe it to be at least as good as any other	Yes	No	Llandudno being a watering place, the medical practitioners are keenly alive, from past experience, to the danger of infectious diseases, especially during the bathing season, and they notify with the utmost promptitude and willingness—so much so, that the clause compelling notification by householders has been allowed to become a dead letter. I am, however, of opinion that in other towns the co-operation of householders would be of great service