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is required to notify such cases only to the Medical
Officer of Health of the place from which the inmate was
brought to the Asylum. It appeared that in the cases in
question, a notification respecting the disease from which
the patient was certified to be suffering at the time he
was brought to the asylum was forwarded in the usual
way by the patient's medical attendant to the Medical
Officer of Health of the place from which the patient
was brought, and that upon some other disease supervening
the Medical Officer of the Asylum forwarded,
as above stated, to this Board's Medical Officer of
Health for Tooting, a notification (afterwards withdrawn)
in respect of the latter disease. It is assumed that a
similar notification was forwarded to the Medical Officer
of Health of the place from which the patient was
brought, but the Board were of opinion that in all cases
where a disease other than that from which the patient
was certified to be suffering when sent to a hospital
supervenes, notification thereof should also be sent to
the Medical Officer of Health for the District in which
the hospital is situate, and they called the attention of
the Local Government Board to the matter. The
Board were afterwards informed that the point had
been noted for consideration in the event of a proposal
being made for the amendment of the existing law.
unfenced Forecourts. The Board have had under consideration
the subject of the danger arising from unfenced
forecourts of shops being at a different level to
the adjoining public way, and have requested the
London County Council to consider the desirability of
obtaining Parliamentary powers enabling Local Authorities
to require such forecourts to be made level
with the adjoining public way. The Council promised
that the matter shall receive attention when any proposal
for the amendment of the Metropolis