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involve officers being at work night and day, as notifications are
received at all hours.
In order to more closely comply with the forwarding of the copies
of notifications to the head teachers so that children might be excluded
from schools, as soon as possible, and thus prevent the
spread of infectious disease, instructions were given to the Sanitary
Inspectors to send their men to the office to make enquiries every
afternoon about 4 o'clock, or communicate by telephone from the
Board's Depots as to whether any notifications had been received
since the morning, and, if so, the men were to at once call at the
houses and bring back information to the Clerk in the Sanitary
Department whose duty it is to send copies of the notifications to
the schools, so that a copy of the notification might be sent the same
evening to the school or schools, as the case might be, in order that
children might be excluded first.thing in the morning.
Notices of eight passengers had been received from the London
Port Sanitary Authority (see Bubonic Plague, page 61.)
disinfecting department.
The following figures give the number of premises disinfected, and
the number of times the Board's apparatus was used for the two
parishes, some thousands of articles being disinfected.
Private premises.
Board's apparatus.
Poplar 372 322
Bromley 399 389
771 711
In my report dated 23rd November upon Bubonic plague (see
page 61), I called the attention of the Committee to the fact that
there was only one disinfecting apparatus in the Poplar district. The