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carriages or passenger boats, or in any covered place or
public resort, should be forbidden by law."
In the Autumn of 1903, the London County Council added
the following Clause to their bye-laws:-
"No person shall spit on the floor, side, or wall of any public
carriage or of any public hall, public waiting-room, or place
of entertainment, whether admission thereto be obtained
upon payment or not."
Any person who shall offend against this bye-law shall be
liable for each offence to a fine not exceeding forty shillings.
RESPIRATORY DISEASES.
Under this heading are included Bronchitis, Pneumonia,
Pleurisy and other diseases of the respiratory organs; 293 deaths
were registered, 96 of these were children under one year of
age, and 145 under the age of five.
BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS.
The Council renewed the arrangement with the Clinical
Research Association, Limited, of I, Southwark Street, London
Bridge, for making Bacteriological Examinations and Reports
upon doubtful cases of Diphtheria and Typhoid, cases of
Diphtheria having been notified to the Council and the patients
removed to hospital, where it has been subsequently ascertained
that they have not been suffering from the disease, and have
accordingly been sent home again. In these cases the Borough
and the Metropolitan Asylums Beard have been put to certain
unnecessary expense, and persons so removed have had their
feelings unnecessarily shocked, besides having been exposed
to the risk of infection during their temporary stay at the
hospital.
Having regard, therefore to these circumstances, the Committee
was of opinion it would be of great assistance to the
medical men in the Borough, who have not the apparatus
necessary to make a bacteriological investigation in order to