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needed to prevent the spread of the disease amongst members
of the same household (and others). When the infected room
or house becomes vacant (from death, removal, etc.), disinfection
is carried out as required.
In connection with the voluntary notification of consumption,
it appears to be competent for a Borough Council* to enter into
such an arrangement, and to pay a reasonable fee for such,
without the sanction of the Local Government Board, as the
following letter shows:—
Local Government Board,
Whitehall, S.W.
11th January, 1902.
Sir,
I am directed by the Local Government Board to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter of the 9th instant, and in
reply to state that it is competent to the Borough Council
of Lambeth, without the Board's sanction, to enter into an
arrangement for the voluntary notification by local Medical
Practitioners of cases of infectious disease other than those
diseases to which Section 55 of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891, applies occurring in their respective practices,
and to pay a reasonable fee for such notification.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
John Lithiby,
Assistant Secretary.
J. Priestley, Esq.,
Medical Officer of Lambeth.
The Metropolitan Asylums Board has no power to repay to a
Metropolitan Borough Council the fees paid for the certificates
received in connection with this voluntary notification of Tuberculosis,
as must be done in the case of the compulsory notification
* Of the Metropolitan Boroughs and Cities, the following have adopted
a Voluntary Notification of Consumption: City of London, City of Westminster,
Boroughs of Finsbury, Greenwich, Hammersmith, Hampstead,
Kensington, Southwark, Stoke Newington and Woolwich, in addition to
Lambeth.