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convenience of the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board,
and the following figures without doubt show this:—
Disease. No. of Cases. No. of Removals.
Scarlet Fever 727 668
Enteric Fever 54 50
Diphtheria and Membranous
Croup 210 170
I have no knowledge of any spread of disease arising from the
sale of bread in chandlers' shops and on insanitary and infected
premises, or from the practice of exchanging bread.
I certainly think that if parents had thought the disease had
been in any way caused from the sale of bread I should have heard
of cases, as my experience tells me that parents are only too prone
to saddle the cause of disease upon anything.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
(Signed) FRED. WM. ALEXANDER,
Medical Officer of Health.
F. J. Willis, Esq.,
Assistant Secretary,
Local Government Board,
Whitehall, S.W.
Hours of Labour (Bakehouses) Bill.
A Bill to restrict the hours in bakehouses to eight hours per day and not
more than forty-eight hours per week, and to regulate the same.
Presented by Mr. Wilkie, supported by Mr. Bowerman, Mr. Gill,
Mr. Barnes, Mr. James Haslam, Mr. Shackleton, Mr. William
Thorne and Mr. Nolan.
Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 19th April 1910.