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SHEPHERDS BUSH EXHIBITION.
White City.
During the year this Exhibition was opened as
The Anglo-American Exhibition. The whole of the
sanitary arrangements were under daily inspection by
the Sanitary Inspector appointed to supervise the same.
In a few instances it was found necessary to serve
notices calling upon the owners to carry out certain
work which was immediately attended to.
At the close of the Exhibition, the grounds and
buildings were taken over by the London Territorial
Association for the purpose of housing troops. The
premises were kept under inspection, and many improvements
were carried out for the comfort of the
troops. The number of troops stationed at this encampment
varied from 4,000 to 10,000 officers and men.
Every assistance was rendered by this department
to the military authorities in the camp. The Sanitary
Inspector visited the premises almost daily, and assisted
in the inspection of food and gave advice as regards the
sanitary arrangements. Many cases of infectious disease
including measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria and chickenpox,
were notified and immediately removed to appropriate
hospitals.
Twenty-one cases of scarlet fever, 20 cases of
diphtheria, 4 cases of measles, and 1 case of chickenpox
were notified and removed to the hospitals of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board.
Six cases of scarlet fever and 9 cases of diphtheria
were, however, returned from the hospitals as not
suffering.
OLYMPIA.
At the commencement of the war, Olympia was
taken over by the War Office and used as a detention
camp for German prisoners of war. The premises were
kept under constant inspection and every precaution
taken to keep them in a proper sanitary condition.
Towards the end of the year arrangements were
made for the removal of the prisoners to other detention