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infectious disease, to refuse fresh admissions for such time as
may be required by the authority.
4. That the local authority should be empowered to require
the temporary closing of any common lodging-house in which
infectious disease has occurred.
5. That the local sanitary authorities should have power
to require the detention of any inmate of a common lodginghouse
or casual ward who may reasonably be suspected of
being liable to convey infectious disease.
6. That means should be provided for the detention and
isolation of any vagrant found wandering in a public place, if
reasonably suspected of being liable to convey infectious
disease.
7. That the local authority should have full power to
require the disinfection of the person and clothes of any
person in a common lodging-house or casual ward, whether
infected or exposed to infection.
8. That arrangements should be made by which the occurrence
of infectious disease in common lodging-houses or
casual wards should be made known by the local authority of
the district to the local authorities of other districts.
9. That local authorities should be empowered to require
the vaccination or re-vaccination of persons in common
lodging-houses or casual wards who are exposed to the
infection of smallpox.
Scarlet Fever.
529 cases were notified of this disease, which, though
showing a decline as compared with last year, was still
prevalent throughout the district,