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“ infection arising from the conditions affecting the use or
“ occupation of any room, when used or occupied by the poor
“ person as a sleeping apartment ; and
iv. “ Furnish, for the use of the poor person, on loan, or otherwise, any
“ appliance, apparatus, or utensil, which will be of assistance for
“ the purpose of any precaution against the spread of infection."
The sanitary authority, on the advice of their medical officer of health,
is authorised to provide and publish or distribute in the form of placards,
handbills, or leaflets, suitable summaries of information and instruction
respecting pulmonary tuberculosis, and the precautions to be taken against
spread of infection from that disease.
The Board propose, in due course, to issue for the use of sanitary
authorities and medical officers of health, a Memorandum by their medical
officer, setting out the appropriate action that can be taken under the powers
conferred under Article IX. referred to above. In these circumstances I
advised that no action be taken by the Corporation in this direction until the
receipt of the Board's Memorandum on the subject, and that in the meantime
the precautionary measures for the prevention of phthisis now in operation in
the City be observed as heretofore.
THE SPITTING EVIL.
In the Annual Report for 1907, in commenting on the nuisance created by
spitting in railway carriages, attention was directed to the powers with
which the railway companies are armed, under their bye-laws, for the
repression of the evil.
The fact that the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway Co., on
16th December last, took proceedings at Marylebone against a passenger who
had been seen to spit three times upon the floor of a railway carriage, and was
ordered to pay five shillings, will, it is hoped, not be without effect as a warning
to those addicted to this dangerous and disgusting practice.
“CARRIERS” OF ENTERIC FEVER.
With a view of protecting the public from the danger arising from the
discharge from hospital of patients who, although in other respects perfectly
healthy, may be carriers of infection, by reason of their still passing the
bacillus typhosus in their stools and urine, the following arrangements have
been made by the Local Government Board in connection with cases of this
kind discharged from a hospital of the Metropolitan Asylums Board.