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The various Hospitals to which the cases were removed
are as follows:—
Asylums Board Hospitals.
Victoria Hospital.
St. Thomas's Hospital.
St. George's Hospital.
London Fever Hospitals.
Wandsworth & Clapham Union Infirmary.
Small-Pox.
Five cases of Small-Pox were notified during
1897; of these, four were not genuine cases of the
disease, but of other diseases difficult to differentiate in the
early stages. The genuine case was removed to the Small-Pox
ship at Erith. The patient was a man employed at the Docks,
where the disease was probably contracted.
As there have been complaints that persons suffering from
this and other infectious diseases have been conveyed in public
conveyances, the following notice has been issued to those concerned,
such as cabmen and conductors of tram cars and
omnibuses.
The Vestry of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea.—Notice
to owners of public conveyances, drivers, &c.—The Vestry
of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea, desire to draw the
attention of the public to sec. 70, of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, which enacts that it shall not be lawful
for any owner or driver of a public conveyance knowingly
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