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The Act of 29 and 30 Vic., c. 90, renders penal the
giving, lending, selling, or exposing of any bedding,
clothing, rags, or other things which have been used
in infected houses; and yet in but comparatively few instances
have any systematic efforts been made to supply
the requirements indicated.
In the City of London, in Liverpool, and in some few
other places, establishments of the kind required are in
full operation, and that, too, at a very small cost. On
the authority of Dr. Trench, the Medical Officer of
Health of Liverpool, it may be stated, that two are being
carried on in that town at a weekly expense of less than
£5 each. When it is recollected that establishments of
this description once provided, may be readily made
available for several other sanitary purposes, amongst
which may be mentioned the furnishing of convenient
standing places for vehicles employed in the conveyance
of infected persons to the special hospitals, infirmaries, &c.,
the wonder is that they are not more generally adopted,
and that the opposition of persons who object to these
places on purely selfish grounds, is so often permitted to
prevail against the common sense view of such a matter.
The following detailed table, read in connection with
that in the Report of 1870, will show how few, comparatively
speaking, were the deaths from the other
Zymotic diseases during the year under review:—