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Order of Local Government Board—Admission of Non-pauper
cases in hospitals of metropolitan asylums board.
The Local Government Board made an Order providing that
non-pauper cases of measles shall be received into hospitals of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board only when there is room available beyond
the requirements of pauper cases of measles; and only on the
recommendation of the Medical Officer of Health, or in case of sudden or
urgent necessity, by direction of the Clerk of the Asylums Board.
Milkshops.
Eight cases of measles occurred in connection with milkshops.
Disinfection and Outworkers.
Six hundred and thirteen rooms (585 houses) were disinfected by the
Public Health Department (see page 89), and the remainder were disinfected
by the tenants, medical practitioners giving certificates that disinfection
had been satisfactorily carried out.
Bespecting outworkers and the articles disinfected by the Council
see pages 80 and 89.
SPOTTED FEVER.
EPIDEMIC CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS.
The Local Government Board on March 1st, 1911, approved an Order
of the London County Council requiring the notification of cases of
cerebro-spinal fever for a further period of twelve months from and
including March 13th, 1911.
Six cases occurred within the Borough—-4 Poplar and 2 Bromley.
Five of the patients died, shown as follows:—
* Posterior basal meningitis is included in the term "cerebro-spinal fever," but
does not include meningitis due to tuberculosis, syphilis, middle ear disease, and injury.
The Local Government Board approved an Order of the London County Council made
on February 27th, 1912, requiring the notification of cases of cerebro-spinal fever
(epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis) from and including March 13th, 1912.