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The Committee were of opinion Zymotic Enteritis or Summer
Diarrhoea should be made a notifiable disease during the summer months
as proposed, and recommended the Council that the Council of the
Metropolitan Borough of Poplar being satisfied that summer weather is
favourable to the prevalence and development of Zymotic Enteritis or
Epidemic Diarrhœa, and of the necessity for any cases which may occur
being notified, do hereby make an Order that for a period of four calendar
months from the 31st day of May, 1915, and for the same period in each
succeeding year, or until such Order be revoked or varied, Section 55
of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, (except so far as it requires
copy of any certificate to be sent to the head teacher of the school attended
by the patient or by any child who is an inmate of the same house) be
applied in the said Borough of Poplar to the infectious disease known
and described as Zymotic Enteritis or Epidemic Diarrhœa.
(Statutory notice was given of the above proposal on 5th October, 1914.)
The Council resolved that the before mentioned Order be submitted
to the Local Government Board for approval.
On the 8th October the Council made an Order under Section 56 of
the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, to put into operation in the
Borough Section 55 of the Act for compulsory notification of Zymotic
Enteritis (Summer Diarrhœa) with the exception of the provision of the
Section requiring a copy of any certificate to be sent to the head teacher
of the school attended by the patient or by any child who is an inmate
of the same house. The Local Government Board, however, pointed
out that the Act contains no provision for such exception, and suggests
the Council should pass a fresh resolution omitting this limitation.
Statutory notice of intention to make such order was necessary and
the Public Health and Housing Committee therefore gave notice that at
the meeting of the Council to be held on Thursday, January 14th, 1915,
the Public Health and Housing Committee would propose that the
following Order be made and submitted to the Local Government for
approval, viz. :—
That the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar being
satisfied that summer weather is favourable to the prevalence and
development of Zymotic Enteritis or Epidemic Diarrhoea, and of
the necessity for any cases which may occur being notified, do
hereby make an Order that for a period of four calendar months
from the 31st day of May, 1915, and for the same period in each
succeeding year, or until such Order be revoked or varied, Section
55 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, be applied in the said
Borough of Poplar to the infectious disease known and described as
Zymotic Enteritis or Epidemic Diarrhœa.
The Local Government Board have approved the Order made by
the Poplar Borough Council on the 14th January, extending the application
of Section 55 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, in the Borough
to Zymotic Enteritis or Epidemic Diarrhœa, for a period of four calendar
months from the 31st May, 1915, and for the same period in each succeeding
year.