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Re Small-Pox Contacts.
thereto. The Committee resolved that legislation on the
lines indicated would be an advantage, and they directed
that the London County Council be informed that this
Council approve of the suggested clauses as set out above.
Your Committee considered a letter from the Clerk,
London County Council (17th May), stating that the Public
Health Committee of that Council has considered this
Council's letter of the 26th November last, together with
the letter from the St. Pancras Borough Council asking the
Council to insert in its next General Powers Bill a clause
embodying Section 42 of the Brighton Corporation Act,
1903, and also providing that any person inhabiting any
house in which there had been a case of Small-Pox, who
knowingly and wilfully associated with other persons without
having his or her clothes disinfected and cleansed
should be liable to a fine, and asking whether this Council
had considered the question of the payment of compensation
to persons who might as the result of action by the Sanitary
Authority be prevented from following their employment
because they had been exposed to infection from Small-pox
or other infectious disease, and whether this Council was of
opinion that Sanitary Authorities should be required or
empowered to pay such compensation. The Committee
considered a report from the Medical Officer of Health on
this letter, and directed that the London County Council
be informed that in their opinion permissive power should
be granted to local authorities to pay fair recompense to
any contacts isolated by them at their shelter during the
period of incubation.