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to convey, or for any other person knowingly to place in
any public conveyance a person suffering from any dangerous
infectious disease, or for a person suffering from any
such disease to enter any public conveyance, and if he does
so he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £10 ; and if any
person so suffering is conveyed in any public conveyance,
the owner or driver thereof as soon as it comes to his
knowledge shall give notice to the Sanitary Authority, and
shall cause such conveyance to be disinfected, and if he fails
to do so he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £5, and
the owner or driver of such conveyance shall be entitled to
recover in a summary manner from the person so conveyed
by him or from the person causing that person to be so
conveyed a sum sufficient to cover any loss and expense
incurred by him in connection with such disinfection.
A chamber has been provided at the Vestry's Depot,
Culvert Road, where conveyances can be disinfected free of
charge.
The Metropolitan Asylums Board will remove in one of
their ambulances any person suffering from infectious
disease to places other than the Board's hospitals upon
application and payment of the sum of five shillings. In the
case of inability to pay such sum application should be made
to the Public Health Department of the Vestry, by whom
such removal will be effected.
Scarlet Fever. One thousand one hundred and eleven notifications
of this disease were received, and six hundred
and eighty-nine of the less effectively isolated cases removed
to hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylum Board, and to the
London Fever Hospital, leaving four hundred and twenty-two
which were treated at home. The deaths in hospital, to which
the worst type of cases is generally removed, was twenty-seven,
or just four per cent, of cases, while of the cases treated at home,
the majority of which were of a very slight nature, involving
perhaps only scarlatinal sore throat, rather over one per cent. died.