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subject, and the various manure notices requiring a removal
of manure three times a week have been renewed. Notices
have also been served upon various offenders.
There may come a time in the future horseless age
when this source of annoyance will be abolished.
Prosecutions under the Public Health Act.
The owner of 165, Great Portland Street was summoned
under the Act for defective drains, and absence of a proper
water supply. The Magistrate granted a closing order.
Messrs. H. and E. Lea, of Warwick Street, were
summoned for not depositing plans and necessary notices of
drainage of a new building erected at No. 66, Oxford Street,
as required by the Bye-laws of the London County Council.
The Magistrate fined the defendants £2, with costs.
Notification of Erysipelas.
The writer has more than once expressed an opinion
that it serves no useful purpose to notify erysipelas.
Erysipelas is a disease that shows but slight tendency
to spread : it may be said to be inoculable rather than
contagious. In other words it is rare for erysipelas to
spread from person to person, save the seeds of the malady
obtain entrance into the system through a wound or some
abrasion of the skin; besides which the majority of cases
notified are trivial cases. In this district, in a small number,
there have been special circumstances rendering disinfection
desirable; but for the most part the certificates are simply
filed, and this is the routine practice of the majority of the
local authorities.
Stepney has once again raised the question, and in a
circular letter state that they have resolved to urge the
Local Government Board to amend the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, by removing erysipelas from the list of
notifiable diseases. The Public Health Committee of St.
Marylebone have expressed their concurrence in this view.