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200
The yearly averages for the two decennia 1891-1000
(Parish) and 1902-11 (Borough) are respectively 350.0 and
341.9.
REMOVAL OF INFECTED CHILD FROM
THE COUNTRY
H.B. (aged 12 years), of 99 Coronation Buildings, South
Lambeth Road, went on a visit to Pulborough, where he
contracted, and was notified on August 9th, 1912, as suffering
from, scarlet fever. There being no isolation hospital
at Pulborough, the mother brought the child home to
Lambeth by train, and on arrival he was removed to the
M.A.B. Fever Hospital, and the necessary disinfection
afterwards carried out. The carriages of the train in
which the patient travelled were disinfected. No legal
proceedings were instituted against the parents who,
apparently, acted in ignorance of their liabilities under the
Acts, and did all in their power to prevent the spread of
the disease under the circumstances.
NOTIFICATION OF LEPROSY
The Council, during 1912, decided to support the Greenwich
Borough Council's application to the London
County Council asking that an Order should be made
making leprosy compulsorily notifiable throughout the
Administrative County of London, so that the usual precautionary
measures might be applicable to that disease.
The London County Council refused the application on the
ground that there was not sufficient evidence to warrant the
inclusion of leprosy in the list of notifiable infectious
diseases, but, having regard to the importance of the
matter, drew the attention of the Local Government Board
to the subject.