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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
On the whole the adoption of voluntary notification has
proved of very great value. The cases notified nearly all occurred
among the working classes where the information given on the
cards would prove of most value, and such information was in all
cases most gladly received by the relatives and the patients.
In December inquiry was made at the public-houses in the
Borough whether the occupiers would exhibit a bill calling attention
to the danger to health caused by indiscriminate spitting, and
in nearly every instance they stated that they would be quite
willing to put up such a notice. The Council on my report agreed
to have a notice printed, and this has now been distributed to all
the public-houses in the Borough. This notice was as follows: —
METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF WANDSWORTH.
SPITTING.
The Council of the above Borough beg to call attention
to the serious danger to health, caused by indiscriminate
Spitting in Public -houses and Workshops, and also to the
following Bye-law made by the London County Council,
viz.: —
"No Person shall spit on the floor, side, or wall of
"any public carriage, or of any public hall, public
"waiting room, or place of entertainment, whether
"admission thereto be obtained on payment or not..
HENRY GEORGE HILLS,
Town Clerk.
Council House, Wandsworth,
January, 1904.
I have no doubt but that the notice will not only be of some
benefit to the occupiers of these premises, but also have an
educational effect on those frequenting them.
Bacteriological Examination of Sputum.
36 examinations of sputum were made for medical practitioners
by the Lister institute of Preventive Medicine, 1i in Clapham,