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The names and employment or occupation of himself and the
members of his family being inmates of such building, and
in the case of children attending school the names of the
schools attended.
(3) The employer of any person employed in, but not an inmate of the
building in which the disease has occurred, shall upon receipt of
notice in writing from the Medical Officer of Health of the existence
of the disease, and written demand for the name of any person so
employed therein, furnish such name, if the same is within his
knowledge or can be ascertained by him by any reasonable means, to
the Medical Officer of Health;
(4) Every person required by this section to furnish information who
fails to give the same, or wilfully gives false information with
reference thereto, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty
shillings.
On the 7th October your Council resolved:—
(1) That a copy of these sections be sent to the London County Council
requesting that section 42 of the Brighton Corporation Act, 1903,
with the addition of the word "age" after the word "name"
wherever it occurs, and of the words "of the Borough" after the
words "Medical Officer of Health" wherever they occur, be inserted
in the next General Powers Bill of the London County Council.
(2) That the London County Council be requested to insert a section into
their next General Powers Bill providing that "any person
inhabiting any house in which a case of small-pox breaks out who
knowingly and wilfully associates with other persons without having
his or her own person and clothes cleansed and disinfected to the
satisfaction of a medical practitioner, shall be liable to a fine not
exceeding forty shillings."
v3) That a copy of Proposition 3 be sent to the Home Secretary
petitioning him to make an Order for the prevention of diseases,
especially of small-pox and consumption, communicable to workers
in laundries.
(4) That the President of the Local Government Board be petitioned to
frame general legislation on the lines of Proposition 4, with the
addition after the first words "that in" of the words "casual wards
and poor law buildings."
(5) That the other Metropolitan Borough Councils be invited to support
these proposals.
PERSONAL CLEANSING STATION.
The Guardians being still in occupation of the Mortuary adjoining the
Coroner's Court, so that the existing Public Mortuary could not be converted
into a Personal Cleansing Station for persons infested with vermin, it was
resolved meanwhile that the room adjoining the washhouse at the Disinfecting
Station be fitted up as a couple of bath rooms, and a small waiting place, at a
cost not exceeding £45. The infested persons who will come to bathe will in