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2. That there should be power in the hands of the Local Authorities
to require medical examination of all persons entering common
lodging houses and casual wards, and that each inmate should be
supplied with a bath of fresh water.
3. That the Local Authority should have power to order the
keeper of a common lodging house in which there has been 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 lodging house 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 small pox.
SMALL POX.
Twenty.six cases of small.pox were notified in Poplar during the
year. Twenty.four patients were removed to the hospitals, but one
was returned as the patient was found not to be suffering from the
complaint. Deducting this case and adding one notified from the