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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 six hundred and twenty-one notifications
of this disease were received, and one thousand
and thirty-one of the less effectively isolated cases removed
to hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylum Board, and to the
London Fever Hospital, leaving five hundred and ninety
which were treated at home. The deaths in hospital, to which
the worst type of cases is generally removed, were forty, or just
under 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.
One thing is certain, that the generally improved sanitary conditions,
including early removal of cases which could not be
effectively isolated, have reduced the mortality of this disease
to a remarkable extent.
In one case during the year it was found necessary to obtain
a magistrate's order to enforce removal to hospital. The patient