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cost of about £12,000. The Finance and General Purposes Committees
however came to the conclusion that the scheme was not
feasible, and it was not adopted by the Council.
149. A motion to formally adopt Part III. of the Housing of the
Working Classes Act, 1890, was moved at the meeting of the Council
on the 29th March, but not carried.
Municipal milk Depots.
150. The Council considered the subject of the establishment of
municipal milk depdts. The reports which were prepared
by the Medical Officer of Health on the subject
for the consideration of the Public Health Committee, will be found
in the report of the Medical Officer of Health, page 70, and the report
of the Committee on the question is contained in the same report,,
page 75. The suggestions of the Committee have been acted upon by
the Council.
151. With regard to one of the suggestions—as to the notification
of epidemic enteritis among infants during the months of July, August
and September, the County Council having been communicated with,
expressed the opinion that it was not advisable to make trial of it in
the case of a population so large as London, and suggested that the
Council should deal with the matter in its own Borough. The Council
therefore applied to the Local Government Board for consent to add
the disease to the list of notifiable diseases in this Borough during the
three months above mentioned. The Local Government Board stated
that while they were desirous of aiding the Council in their efforts to
reduce the infantile mortality in the Borough, they were not at present
satisfied that the compulsory notification of the disease would contribute
largely to that end; that the Board were advised that action
on the lines contemplated by the Council with regard to infantile
diarrhoea might possibly yield valuable results not only in this Borough
but also in regard to the consideration of the question as it might
affect London as a whole, and that if, as the result of experience
the Council gained this year, it should appear that notification would
greatly strengthen the hands of the Council in their efforts to check
infantile diarrhoea, the Board would be prepared next year to further
consider a proposal to make such notification compulsory, and the
Board asked to be furnished at the end of the year with a copy of the
Medical Officer of Health's report on the measures taken.