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London County Council,
Spring Gardens, S.W.,
ls£ December, 1900.
Measles.
Sir,
I am directed to inform you that the Public Health Committee of
the Council have under consideration the question whether it is
advisable that the Council should include " measles " in the term
"dangerous and infectious disease," for the purposes set out in the
following sections of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891 :—
Section 68, which prohibits, under a penalty, the exposure of
infected persons and things.
Section 60, Avhich gives power to sanitary authorities to require
the cleansing and disinfection of infected premises, and the disinfection
or destruction of infected articles, and contains other
provisions as to compensation and shelter during disinfection.
Section 61, under which sanitary authorities can require bedding,
clothing, &c., to be delivered up to them for disinfection,
and must pay compensation for any unnecessary damage.
Section 62, which prohibits, under a penalty, the casting of
infectious rubbish into ash-pits without previous disinfection.
Section 63, which prohibits, under a penalty, persons from
knowingly letting houses in which infected persons have been
lodging, until such premises have been disinfected.
Section 64, which provides for a penalty on persons letting
houses who make false statements as to infectious disease.
Section 65, which provides for a penalty on persons ceasing
to occupy houses without disinfection or notice to owner, or
making false answer.
Section 66, which provides for the removal to hospital of
infected persons without proper lodging.
Section 69, which prohibits infected persons from carrying on
any occupation in such a manner as to be likely to spread disease..
Section 70, which prohibits the conveyance of infected persons
in public conveyances.
Section 72, which prohibits, in certain cases, the retention of
the body of a person who has died of any dangerous infectious
disease.
Section 73, as to the body of a person who has died in hospital of
any dangerous infectious disease being removed only for burial.
Section 74, as to the disinfection of a public conveyance if
used for carrying the body of a person who has died of any
infectious disease.