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from the other preventable children's "zymoties" known as
measles, whooping cough, and diarrhoea. These latter deadly
diseases are - at present - unnotifiable in London and, therefore,
outside the knowledge and control of the Medical Officer.
However, the Middle Temple is not much concerned with these
facte owing to the smallness of its Juvenile papulation. The
case of scarlatina (in a male adult) already referred to was
mowed to a paying ward of the London Fever Hospital, in
Liverpool Street. The infected chambers were efficiently
cleansed and disinfected by the Officers of the Commissioners
of Sewers of the City of London, and there was no subsequent
spread of the disease. It may interest your Authority to
learn the fewer vac in all probability contracted outside the
precincts of the Temple.
Whilst treating the subject of infection, it may be convenient
to remind your Authority of a former report, submitted
in compliance with your instructions, on -
(a) Disinfection; and
(b) Mortuary Accommodation.
In that report, I pointed out that under Section 59 of
the Public Health (London) Act -
(1) Every Sanitary Authority sha11 provide either within
or without their district, proper premises with all necessary
apparatus and attendance for the destruction and for the