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toad which it was proposed to form would probably not be sanctioned
by the County Council. No further action has therefore
been taken with regard to this site, and the consideration of the
subject has been adjourned.
Small-pox.
81.—A Conference was held at the offices of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board, convened by the Holborn Borough
Council, to consider the subject of dealing with
the outbreak of small-pox; Alderman Anderson, Councillor
Robinson, and the Medical Officer of Health, the representatives
appointed by the Council, attended, and the following resolutions
were passed, viz.: —
(a) That, in the opinion of the Conference, the powers and
duties at present vested in the Guardians of the Poor, with regard
to vaccination and re-vaccination, should be transferred to, and
enforced by, Borough Councils.
(b) That, in the opinion of the Conference, an amendment
of the law is necessary, to ensure compulsory vaccination and revaccination
of all persons in a dwelling house wherein small-pox
has broken out.
(c) That, in the opinion of the Conference, it should be
declared an offence, under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
to refuse or withhold information, or give false information, with
respect to persons living in a house in which small-pox has broken
out, with regard to (a) their names, (b) employment or occupation,
(c) schools attended by their children, or (d) as to any persons not
living in such house, but employed therein.
(d.) That, in the opinion of the Conference, the provisions
of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, with regard to the prevention
of infectious diseases, require amendment by (a) shortening
the period of twenty-four hours, allowed by section 60, for the
master of a house to decide whether he will undertake the disinfection
or allow the Sanitary Authority to do so; and (b) extending
the provisions of section 63, to the taking of any house, or part
of a house, by a person suffering from an infectious disease, or
who has been exposed to infection.
(e) That, in the opinion of the Conference, all disinfections
should be carried out by the Sanitary Authority.
(f) That, in the opinion of the Conference, it is advisable that
application be made to the Metropolitan Asylums Board to send
out to every Medical Officer of Health in London daily lists of
small-pox cases only, with age and addresses of patients, as is done
weekly in the case of all infectious diseases.