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centre of infection. The strictest quarantine and isolation were
enforced, which has fortunately resulted in the disease being
kept under control. The Port and other Sanitary Authorities
immediately notified the Health Department when any persons
were proceeding to this district after having subjected themselves
to possible contagion, and all such persons were kept
under the strictest observation by the Health Officers for the
full period of incubation.
On the 1st September the Metropolitan Asylums Board
issued a circular notifying that the Superintendents of the
Board's Ambulance Stations had received instructions to
remove forthwith to the South Eastern Hospital any person
duly certified to be suffering from plague, and by an Order of
the Local Government Board, dated 19th September, 1900,
" Plague " was made compulsorily notifiable, and the following
are the more important terms of the Order in question :—
"In the District of every Sanitary Authority which is
situate without the Administrative County of London the
persons mentioned in Section 3 of the Infectious Disease
(Notification) Act, 1889, and the Sanitary Authority shall,
under this Order, have the same powers and duties in relation
to the notification of cases of Plague as they would have under
that Act if Plague were an infectious disease to which that Act
applied.
"In the District of every Sanitary Authority in the
Administrative County of London, and in the District of the
Port Sanitary Authority of the Port of London, the persons
mentioned in Section 55 of the Public Health (London) Act,
1891 (including the Managers of the Metropolitan Asylums
District), and the Sanitary Authority shall, under this Order,
have the same powers and duties in relation to the notification
of cases of Plague as they would have under that Section if
Plague were an infectious disease to which that Section applied.