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Order of Local Government Board—Admission of (Non-pauper
and Pauper) Cases into Hospitals of Metropolitan Asylums
Board.
Three cases were removed to the hospitals of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board—1 Poplar, 1 Bromley, and 1 Bow.
See page (78) letter from Metropolitan Asylums Board re accommodation.
Milkshops.
Three cases of measles occurred in connection with milkshops—1
Poplar, 1 Bromley, and 1 Bow.
Disinfection and Outworkers.
Two hundred and ninety-one rooms were disinfected by the Public
Health Department (see page 91), and the remainder were disinfected
by the tenants, medical practitioners giving certificates that disinfection
had been satisfactorily carried out.
Respecting outworkers and the articles disinfected by the Council
see pages 78 and 91.
Compulsory Notification of Measles and German Measles.
The Local Government Board issued an Order to the effect that
on and after the 1st of January, 1916, cases of Measles and German
Measles must be notified to the Medical Officer of Health, either by the
Doctor in attendance upon the case, or by the parent, guardian, or other
person having charge of the sufferer. By Article VIII. the Local Authority
shall pay to every Medical Practitioner a fee of two shillings and sixpence
for every notification made by him if the case occurs in his private
practice, or of one shilling if the case occurs in his practice as a medical
officer of any public body or institution.
By Article IX. the Local Authority is empowered to provide or
contract for the provision of medical assistance for the poorer inhabitants
of the District when suffering from either of the diseases above mentioned.
In accordance with the General Order of the Local Government
Board making Measles and German Measles compulsorily notifiable,
public notice was given of the provisions of the Order, which came into
operation on the 1st January 1916.
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