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disease if the first cases occur among non-residents, and only the Medical
Officers of Health of the districts to which those patients belong are
notified. On the other hand one remembers a case where a child,
brought into the district on a visit (at a private house), developed an
infectious disease on the first day of his stay, and there was no
question but that the disease was contracted outside the district; yet,
under the Public Health (London) Act, Section 55, such cases would
not be notified to the Medical Officers of Health of the districts from
which they came but to the Medical Officers of the districts in which
they were taken ill, and the Medical Officers of the districts where the
diseases were contracted would not know of the cases. The medical
attendant is only bound to notify an infectious disease once. The
question arises, are infirnaries such as the Sick Asylum and the City
of London Union Infirmary hospitals under the Act, and would the
sick wards of the Stepney Union Workhouse and the Poplar Union
Workhouse also be considered hospitals? It would appear that the
Asylums' Board consider the Sick Asylum as a hospital.

Upon the recommendation of the Sanitary Committee, the Board
resolved that their steam disinfecting apparatus at Glaucus Street
should be fitted with a patent "Automatic Recorder," which gives a
graphic representation of the day's work, and the charts can be so
used that the whole process of disinfection can be readily seen at a
glance, viz., the time of day that the articles are put in the apparatus,