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The effect of the Order is to require that, on becoming
aware that the inmate of any house, building, vessel, tent, van,
shed, or similar structure used for human habitation within the
Administrative County of London, is suffering from Glanders,
Anthrax or Hydrophobia the Head of the Family to which the
patient belongs, and in his default, the nearest relatives of the
patient present in the house, or in attendance on, the patient,
and, in default of such relatives every person in charge
of, or in attendance on, the patient, and, in default of any such
person, the master of the house or other similar structure, shall
send notice of the case to the Medical Officer of Health of the
sanitary district in which the house or structure is situated;
and every Medical Practitioner attending on or called in to visit
the patient shall send to the same Medical Officer of Health a
Certificate giving full particulars of the case.
The Notice or certificate may be sent to the Medical Officer
of Health at his office or residence.
Every person required by the Statute to send a notice or
certificate who fails forthwith to send the same will be liable to a
Fine not exceeding Forty Shillings.
G. L. GOMME,
Clerk to the London County Council.
County Hall, Spring Gardens, S.W.
20th April, 1909.
No case of these diseases was notified in the Borough of
Hackney during 1909.
B. -NON NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
Influenza.—This disease was responsible for 58 deaths in
Hackney during 1909. This is an increase of 4 upon the number
registered during 1908. The annual mortality for this disease for
the former year is .24 per 1,000 persons living and that for all
London .23 per 1,000.