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24. The word "drain" should be defined as proposed in
the Sewers and Drains Bill which was introduced by the London
County Council into Parliament in Session 1896. (Sec. 141.)
25. The Metropolitan Asylums Board should be required
to forthwith notify the admission to the Board's Hospitals of any
patient suffering from an infectious disease to the Medical Officer
of Health of the District from which the patient was removed,
and also forthwith to notify the discharge of any patient from
such hospital to the Medical Officer of Health of the District
into which the patient is discharged.
26. Dairymen supplying milk within a District from
premises beyond such District should notify to the Local
Authority of the former all cases of infectious disease among
persons employed in such dairies.
27. Provision should be made for securing that persons
engaged in washing, mangling or ironing clothes, shall, when
required, furnish to the Sanitary Authority lists of the owners
of clothes washed, mangled or ironed at the laundry or others
premises, and that the proprietors of businesses engaging "outworkers"
in the manufacture of food or wearing apparel shall
furnish the Sanitary Authority of the District in which the
outworkers reside with the names and addresses of such outworkers.
28. Provision should be made for power to enforce
ventilation under the basement floors of houses, and the
permanent ventilation of passages and staircases.
29. The provisions of the Act should be made to apply to
Government and all other buildings.
Many of the foregoing recommendations had already been
the subjects of special representations to legislating authorities
without any present result. It may be hoped, however, that in