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Sleeping Arrangements of Patients.

GLANDERS.
In Part VI. (Legislation) of the Annual Report for 1907 the London Order
of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, dated 12th September, 1907, as to
the Notification of Glanders in Horses was quoted, and also the Regulations of
the London County Council thereunder.
In Part III. (Infectious Diseases) of the same Annual Report paragraphs
relating to human glanders were quoted, and it was explained that in future,
by the Order, a Veterinary Inspector must report the existence of glanders to
the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough as well as to the County Council.
During the year 1908 the Veterinary Inspector reported 38 outbreaks of
glanders in horses in various stables in the Borough.

The number of cases of Notifiable Infectious Diseases removed to hospital in
each week of the year were as stated in the attached table.