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expiration of a week from the date of the advertisement. The
resolution for the Order should declare the cause of the emergency.
An Order made under the provisions relating to emergencies
would not remain in force for more than a month, except with the
approval of the Board, but I am directed to state that in the event
of the Sanitary Authority desiring, interview of any special circumstances,
that cases of the disease should be made compulsorily
notifiable in their district, the Board would be prepared to consider
an application for their approval to a resolution of the Authority
extending the provisions of the Infectious Disease (Notification) Act,
1889, or in London of Section 55 of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891, to that disease for a limited period.
I am also directed to state that a Report has recently been made
to the Board by Dr. H. M. Gordon on the Micrococcus of Epidemic
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis with special reference to its identification
in the Upper Respiratory Passages. This Report is now passing
through the press, and will be published in the course of a few days.
It can then be purchased either directly, or through any bookseller,
of Wyman & Sons, Limited, Fetter Lane, London, E.C.
The Memorandum can also be purchased in the same way, so
that Sanitary Authorities desirous of obtaining further copies of it,
of distributing copies amongst the medical practitioners in their
districts, can readily procure the same.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
S. B. PROVIS,
Secretary.
Memorandum on Cerebro-spinai. Fever.
Cerebro-spinal fever, known also as epidemic cerebro-spinal
meningitis, spotted fever, and by many other less frequently used
names, has recently attracted renewed attention in this country by
reason of the serious mortality occasioned by disease of this class in
New York and in certain localities on the Continent of Europe.
Interest in this malady has been further stimulated by the public
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