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been advised she was not to attend another confinement for some
weeks after she had ceased nursing the patient, and was thereby
debarred from obtaining her livelihood. The Committee were of
opinion the subject of compensating such cases as this, as well as
any midwife who may be suspended by the rules of the Central
Midwives' Board, made under Section 8 (3) of the Midwives Act,
1902, should be brought under the notice of the Central Midwives'
Board, and legislation promoted to enable compensation to be
given by the Local Supervising Authorities.
The Committee recommended the Council to endorse their
opinion, and communications on the subject be addressed to the
Central Midwives' Board and the London County Council.
SMALL-POX.
Of the 42 cases of small-pox notified within the Borough, 41
patients had the disease, as one case was returned home not
having the complaint. One case notified to the Borough of Stepney
was removed from the Stepney Union Workhouse.
(1) Park Place, female, aged 49 years. The patient had been
vaccinated in infancy, two good marks; and another very small one.
The case was one of discrete small pox.
There was no account as to how the patient had contracted the
disease, she stated she had not been out of the house since
Christmas.
The patient was taken ill on the 22nd January, notified on the
28th January, and removed to the Small Pox Hospital same day.
The inmates of the house consisted of husband and nine children,
all of whom went to the Council's shelter, Glaucus Street, were
bathed and their clothes disinfected, and remained at shelter until
the house throughout was disinfected, cleansed, stripped and limewhitened.
The father wished to have himself and his children re-vaccinated.