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Possibly if the floor were scoured with boiling water containing
ordinary washing soda, the result would be better. Similar precautions
might be adopted for dealing with hair, though in
this case, the effect of the soda might be to soften the hair and
to lessen its commercial value.
YELLOW FEVER, PLAGUE AND CHOLERA.
The names and Finsbury addresses of oversea contacts with
cases of these diseases are sent to the public health department
by the medical officers of health of the various ports of entry in
the United Kingdom. These contacts in Finsbury are then visited
periodically and kept under supervision by the public health staff
for varying periods, ft has been pointed out in previous reports
that this supervision is often thwarted by the incorrect addresses
sent. Other cases of failure have been: the use of an accommodation
address; the rapid and covered movements of the contacts
and the refusal of information by the hotel keepers concerned.
One yellow fever contact arrived in the Borough in 1912 and
gave an incorrect address. No notices were received of plague
or cholera contacts.
CEREBRO-SPINAL FEVER.
POLIO-MYELITIS
AND POLIO-ENCEPHALITIS.
These diseases have been made notifiable by an order of the
London County Council, dated March 9th, 1912, to come into
operation from and including March 13th, 1912.
For notification purposes, posterior basal meningitis is included
in the term "cerebrospinal fever." This term, however, is not
to include cases of meningitis due to tuberculosis, syphilis, middle
ear disease or injury.
One notification was received of cerebro spinal fever, three of
polio myelitis.