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(6) That it is desirable that in districts comprising groups of
counties and county boroughs, intelligence bureaux should be
established, to which information should be sent from sanitary
authorities and workhouses in the district, of persons of the
wandering class who have been exposed to the infection of smallpox;
and that a printed copy of such information should be distributed
from the bureau to every sanitary authority and board of
guardians in the district, and that the expense of working the
bureau should be met by contributions from the county councils
and county boroughs forming the district.
(7) That this Conference is of opinion that the port sanitary
authorities should be authorised to take more stringent precautions
to prevent the importation of disease by persons arriving by vessel
at the ports who are suffering from small-pox, or who have been
exposed to infection by that disease.
COMMON LODGING-HOUSES AND CASUAL WARDS.
(8) That the local authority should have increased control over
common lodging-houses, their keepers and occupants. Thus the
Local Authority should have power—
(a) To medically examine the inmates.
(6) To detain and isolate persons exposed to infection and to
disinfect them and their clothes.
(c) To temporarily close a common lodging-house in whole or in
part, compensation to be given to the keeper of the house.
(9) That the local authority should have power to order the
keeper of a common lodging-house in which there has been infectious
disease to refuse fresh admissions for such time as may be
required by the authority.
(10) That the local authority should be empowered to require
medical examination and disinfection of all persons entering casual
wards.
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