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Hop and Fruit Picking.
The huts and shelters used for the accommodation of pickers
of fruit, &c., have been, with two exceptions, conducted in a satisfactory
manner, and a great improvement has been effected by
paving the floors.
One case of overcrowding was found to exist and remedied, and
in another case the cooking and other arrangements were unsatisfactory,
and the owner of the latter premises has given an undertaking
to provide proper accommodation before the fruit season
commences.
Reports during Year.
I have made special reports to your Council during the year in
reference to the following matters:—Closure of and exclusion from
Schools; Enteric Patients; Water Supply; Dairies and Cowsheds
(3); Water Analyses; Water Supply, Chislehurst Station; Scarlet
Fever (3); Diphtheria Anti-toxin; Housing and Town Planning
Act; Employment of Children Act, 1903.
The Sanitary Officers (Outside London) Order, 1910.
On the 13th December, 1910, the Local Government Board
issued a General Order and Regulations revising the regulations
relating to Medical Officers of Health and Inspectors of Nuisances
of Urban and Rural Districts.
This Order reproduces certain of the provisions contained in
the Orders of 23rd March, 1891, and prescribes some new provisions.
Article 19, sub clause (13) requires a Medical Officer of Health
to furnish the Board with a weekly list of all cases
of infectious disease, and to furnish the County
Medical Officer of Health with a duplicate of such
list.
,, Sub clause (15) requires a Medical Officer of Health
to report to the Board any cases of Plague, Cholera,
or Small-pox.
,, Sub clause (16) requires a Medical Officer of Health
to supply the Board with three copies of his annual
report and one copy of any special report, and urges
Councils to have these former reports printed.
Article 20 deals with the duties of Inspectors of Nuisances.
I addressed a letter to the Board on the subject of sending the
weekly returns of infectious disease, and on receiving their reply
made an arrangement for sending these returns which should prove
satisfactory.