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3. That the Local Authority should have power to order the keeper
of a common lodging-house in which there has been smallpox 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 smallpox has
occurred.
5. That the Local Authority should have power to offer free
lodgings to any inmate of a common lodging-house or casual ward
who may reasonably be expected of being liable to convey smallpox.
6. That the Sanitary Authority should give notice to all adjoining
Sanitary Authorities of the occurrence of smallpox in common lodginghouses
or casual wards.
7. That where the disease occurs, the Public Vaccinator, or the
Medical Officer of Health, should attend and vaccinate the inmates of
such lodging-houses or wards, except such as should be unwilling to
submit themselves to the operation.
(Par. 508.) We may advert to the suggestion that the "Vaccination
and the Sanitary Authority should in all cases be identical
It is contended that sanitation and vaccination, concerning as they do
both the health of the people, should be under the jurisdiction of a
single authority, and that the Sanitary Authority is the appropriate
one for that purpose. Indeed, the advantage of placing in the same
hands the supervision of vaccination and of the other measures
designed to prevent the spread of disease are so great and so obvious
that the proposal to do so deserves most serious consideration. . . .
We should regard with favour such changes as would render the
amalgamation of the Vaccination and Sanitary Authorities feasible.
This recommendation endorses the resolution which
was carried at the conference of Vestries and District
Boards of the Metropolis held at St. Pancras Vestry Hall
on the 25th June last.
"That in the opinion of this conference of delegates of the Metropolitan
Vestries and District Boards the Vaccination Acts should be
administered by the Authorities that administer the Acts and
provisions for the prevention of the spread of infectious diseases by
notification, isolation, and disinfection."
(E.)-As to whether any alteration should be made in the arrangements and
proceedings for securing the performance of Vaccination, and in
particular in those provisions of the Vaccination Acts with respect
to prosecutions for non-compliance with the law.