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Authority of this Parish, if you adopted the compulsory
notification of Measles, as if it could be shown that any
real advantage to the health of the community would
accrue from it, I have not the slightest doubt that you
would be willing to incur the necessary expense; but
as I am quite satisfied that no benefit, in any way
commensurate with the enormous expense that would
have to be incurred, would result, I cannot recommend
you to petition the Local Government Board to add
Measles to the list of notifiable diseases."
The following "Joint Report by the Medical Officer of
Health and the Surveyor, on the By-laws [proposed to be]
made by the London County Council for regulating the
dimensions, form, and mode of construction and the keeping,
cleansing and repairing of the pipes, drains and other means
of communicating with sewers and the traps and apparatus
connected therewith," was submitted to your Vestry in
January, 1897, by Mr. Livingstone and myself:—
"We have carefully considered the proposed By-laws
and beg to suggest that the following alterations be
recommended by the Vestry:—
Rain water
pipes.
By-law 2.—We consider that the waste-pipes of
sinks (other than slop-sinks), baths and lavatory
basins, should be allowed to be connected with rain-water
pipes and open channels, especially as the model By-laws
of the Local Government Board require such waste-pipes
to be discharged over open channels (By-laws with respect
to new streets and buildings, No. 66); a By-law forbidding
the connection of the waste-pipes of baths and lavatory
basins, at any rate, with rain-water pipes, would certainly
tend to discourage the use of baths and lavatories in small
houses.
By-law 3. (Concrete.)—We consider that a stoneware
pipe drain need only be covered with 4-in.
of concrete.