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GLANDERS, ANTHRAX,* AND HYDROPHOBIA
IN MAN.
Extension of Section 55 of the Public Health (London) Act,
1891; Case of Anthrax in Man; London (Notification of
Glanders) Order, 1907 ; Case of Anthrax in a Mare.
In 1908 the Public Health and Housing Committee considered a
communication from the Local Government Board on the subject of
representations made by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries as to the
desirability, with a view to checking the spread of such diseases, of
information being afforded by the Medical Officer of Health to the Clerk
to the Local Authority under the Diseases of Animals Act, 1894, of cases
or suspected cases of glanders, anthrax and hydrophobia in man.
In order to afford this information the Local Government Board
stated it is necessary a means of notification should be adopted, and the
Board would be prepared to favourably consider an application for their
approval of a resolution of the Council for extending to the diseases in
question the provisions of Section 55 of the Public Health (London) Act,
1891.
Fourteen days' notice to members of the Council as required by
Section 55 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, was given on the
22nd December, 1908.
The London County Council gave notice that at a meeting held on
the 23rd day of March, 1909, it made an " Order " that Section 55 of the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, with respect to the notification of
infectious disease shall apply in the Administrative County of London to
the diseases known as Glanders, Anthrax and Hydrophobia in Man. The
Order was approved by the Local Government Board and came into
operation on the 26th April.
A Case of Anthrax in Man.
A notification was received on 1st April from the London Hospital of
a case of Anthrax. The patient lived in Morville Street, Bow. The
• Woolsorter's disease, or splenic fever, or malignant pustule.