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information to be given by the Medical Officer of Health to
the Head Teachers of all Schools, of the occurrence of any of
the infectious diseases named therein, whether in school
children themselves, or in houses from which children are
attending school. This provision has been duly carried out,
by direct communication with the Head Teachers of private
schools, and through the Superintendent of Visitors for the
Chelsea Division of the London School Board in the case of
all public elementary Schools.
PAYMENT OF FEES FOR CERTIFICATES.
During the year 1893, for notification certificates received
by me the sum of £207 Is. 6d. became due to medical
practitioners, in amounts varying from one shilling to
£6 5s. Od. These amounts having been paid by your Vestry,
were recouped by the Asylums Board and charged to the
Metropolitan Common Poor Fund. A question having arisen,
in 1889, how the accounts could be most conveniently arranged,
I proposed that we should prepare a statement of the sums
due to the several medical men, and forward to each the
amount of his claim, by postal order. This plan—simple and
convenient, the amounts due being known, the certificates
forming, as it were, a bill of items—was adopted, and has
worked satisfactorily.
COMPULSORY REMOVAL TO HOSPITAL.
An infectious sick person may be compulsorily removed
to hospital by a Justice's Order,upon the certificate ofa registered
medical practitioner, if he be" without proper lodging or
accommodation." But it has been held that the fitness of
the lodging or accommodation is to be considered only as it
affects the patient himself, and without any reference to the
welfare of the other inhabitants of the dwelling-house wherein