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to the adoption of these suggestions. The order applied for
has been issued, but the bye-laws have not yet been made.
Spread of Disease
by Vagrants.
In July last the London County Council
invited the Board to appoint two delegates, with the
Medical Officers of Health, to attend a Conference on this
subject. The Conference was presided over by Sir John
Hutton, Chairman of the London County Council, and
representatives from sanitary and poor law authorities
from London and the provinces were present numbering
over 100. The following resolutions were adopted, viz.:—
1.—That common shelters, which are net subject to the law relating to
common lodging houses, should be made subject to such law.
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 a 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 occutrence 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.