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Table XII. is a table shewing the incidence of notifiable disease
in the different sanitary districts, and, taking into consideration
the numerical differences of population, the numbers are more
equal than may appear at first sight.
Small-Pox. Four notifications of this disease were received
during 1898. Three of these were not true cases of
Small-Pox. The only true case of Small-Pox which occurred in
the parish, was in the person of a man who had been working at
the erection of a temporary Small-Pox hospital at Middlesboro',
where an epidemic of the disease had broken out. The patient
was at once removed to hospital, and the necessary disinfection
performed, with the result of no second case occuring.
In June notices were received from the Port Medical Officer
of Southampton that two persons were proceeding to this parish
from Cape Town, passengers by s.s. Briton, on which cases of
Small-Pox had occurred. They were kept under close observation
and did not contract the disease.
As there have been complaints that persons suffering
from 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