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6.—The common lodging houses were searched for missed
cases.
7.—The urine and freces of suspected cases were investigated
bacteriologieally. The blood was examined for the Widal
reaction.
8.—A boys' club, to which many of the patients belonged, was
temporarily closed.
9. Samples of ice cream were examined bacteriologically and
chemically.
10.—A circular letter was delivered by hand to all the ice cream
vendors in the Borough, requiring them to scald and scour
daily the ice cream container, the churn, the freezer, and
its cover. The use of the smalf conical glasses for the
sale of ioe cream was prohibited. " Tasters " from a
common spoon were not allowed—they might be given
on paper. The conical glasses referred to, were
disinfected and put away.
Power to enforce these provisions is given by Part VIII.,
Section 42 of the London County Council General Powers
Act, 1902.
11.—Leaflets of instruction were distributed and re-distributed
to every tenement in a street on every occasion when a
fresh case occurred in that street.
12.—The Registrar-General's weekly death returns were watched
for deaths attributed to gastritis, enteritis, diarrhoea,
pneumonia, and influenza. Some of these, near the
affected area, were visited as possible cases of typhoid
fever, and enquiry made into the circumstances.