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Hackney 1899

Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1899

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That all head teachers of schools be required to notify
all cases of infectious disease coming to their knowledge
amongst their scholars, and also all absentees or children
excluded by reason of infectious disease in their homes.
(b) prevention.
Sec. 66.—Amendment (1).
A person suffering from any dangerous infectious disease
who is so lodged that proper precautions cannot be taken for
preventing the spread of the disease to the other inmates of
the house, or who is without proper lodging, etc., etc.
Sec. 71.—Milksellers to be compelled to disclose source of milk
supply.
additions.
All farms supplying milk for public consumption shall be
registered, and subject to periodical inspection under the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
Government Buildings not to be exempt from inspection.
FACTORY AND WORKSHOPS ACTS, 1878-1895.
The following is a list of the inspections, with their results, made
by the male Sanitary Inspectors of Workshops where males alone
are employed. In addition, they attended to 137 workshops where
females were employed, on which nuisances had been found, the
abatement of which involved structural alterations or repairs. These
alterations or repairs were executed under notices served by the
inspectors.
Miss Teebay, the Sanitary Inspector for Laundries and Workshops
where females are employed, paid 730 first visits, and 1,119 visits of
re-inspection, and secured the abatement of 201 nuisances during
the year. Miss Teebay's full report is given in the appendix.