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"(5). That accommodation should be provided in the Metropolitan Asylums
"Board's Hospitals for urgent non-pauper cases of measles.
"(B). That in the interests of public health the school regulations should provide
"that all children from houses infected with measles should be prohibited from school
"attendance."
"Water Supply to Tenement Houses. That houses of two or more storeys occupied
"by more than one family of the working class should have at least one water supply
"and a sink placed on a landing convenient for the occupants of the second and third
"storeys."
"Places where Food is Prepared and Exposed for Sale. (A.). That it is desirable
"that regulations should be made to limit the pollution resulting from exposure in an
"improper manner in public places or adjacent to the public way, of food and food
"receptacles.
"(B). That it is desirable that all places where food is prepared for sale should be
"regulated by bye-laws made by the London County Council and administered by the
"sanitary authorities, and should be subject to annual licensing by the sanitary
"authority."
"Notification of Births Act, 1907. That in view of the adoption of the Notification
"of Births Act, 1907, throughout London, and the provisions of the recent orders of
"the Local Government Board with regard to the compulsory notification of consump"tion,
the appointment of one or more women health visitors, or women sanitary
"inspectors, in each metropolitan borough is eminently desirable."
"Chapels of Rest. That it is desirable that chapels of rest, apart from mortuaries
" for bodies awaiting inquest, should be established by sanitary authorities.
"That all private mortuaries should be registered and regulated."
Conferences of Representatives of Authorities entrusted with the working of the
Statutes relating to public health are in every way desirable, and I am sure that
the interchange of views which are the natural corollary of such meetings must have an
important bearing on the combined and uniform efforts which are so necessary for the
effective administration of public health legislation.
CREMATIONS.
The number of Cremations at the Corporation Cemetry at Ilford during the year
was 20, as compared with 22 in 1910. It will be seen from the table on page 47 that
only two other Crematoria in the United Kingdom have to record a decrease in
numbers, while the total Cremations taking place in 1911 is 1,023, against 840 for 1910.
The increase year by year in the total number of Cremations has been maintained,
with three exceptions since 1885, when the first Crematorium in the United Kingdom
was opened at Woking.
The several large towns in the United Kingdom where Crematoria are erected
are shown in the accompanying table, and the date of opening them indicated in the
first column.
It is interesting to note that since Cremation first received legal recognition
in this country (1884) 9,983 have availed themselves of this method of disposal of
the dead.