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"with an adequate staff, and the Board trust that the Council will at once appoint any
"additional temporary assistants (medical or other) that may be required.
"At the same time I am to enclose a copy of a Memorandum which the Board's
"Medical Officer has prepared on the subject of measles."
I am in entire accord with the views expressed in the above quoted Memorandum.
The real object of notification is to obtain early advice of cases of the diseases notifiable,
and this object I believe can best be attained in the case of the specific disease under
review by the methods advocated above, i.e., the speedy notification by the School
Attendance Department of the Local Education Authority of all cases of illness, whether
diagnosed or not, coming to their notice. Although some of the cases thus notified
would doubtless ultimately prove non-infectious, the advantages obtained by the early
notification on the lines indicated would sufficiently compensate for the additional labour
involved.
RECEPTION OF CASES OF MEASLES.
The Board of Management of the Metropolitan Asylums District, have, by virtue
of the powers vested in them by the Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867, and the Acts
amending and extending that Act, provided hospitals for the reception and treatment
of persons suffering from certain specified infectious diseases.
Section 80 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, empowers the same Board of
Management, subject to such regulations and restrictions as the Local Government
Board may from time to time prescribe, to admit any person who is not a pauper, and
is reasonably believed to be suffering from any of the diseases specified in the Section,
into a hospital provided by the Managers.
The Local Government Board, deeming it expedient that provision should be made
with regard to the admission to such hospitals, of persons not being paupers, suffering
from Measles, on the 30th May last, by virtue of their powers, prescribed the following
regulations and restrictions by which such persons may be admitted into any of the
hospitals maintained by the Metropolitan Asylums Managers:—
Article 1. The Metropolitan Asylums Managers shall not receive into any of
their hospitals a person to whom this Order applies unless, in their opinion, they have
more accommodation available than is required for the reception of the pauper patients
suffering from measles whom the Managers are authorised to receive.
Article 2. Except as hereinafter provided, a person to whom this Order applies
shall not be admitted by the Metropolitan Asylum Managers into any of their hospitals
except on the recommendation of the Medical Officer of Health for the district of the
Sanitary Authority for the execution of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, in
which the person is residing at the time when the question of his removal to hospital
arises.
The recommendation of the Medical Officer of Health shall in every case be sent to
the Metropolitan Asylum Managers, and shall be accompanied by such information
respecting the circumstances of the case as the Metropolitan Asylum Managers may
reasonably require.
Provided that the Clerk to the Metropolitan Asylum Managers may, if he receives
general authority in that behalf from the Managers, direct that a person to whom this