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In July of last year you were asked in common with a
large number of other Sanitary Authorities to appoint
delegates to attend a Conference, held under the auspices of
the London County Council, to consider the ways and means
of coping against the danger. The resolutions carried at the
Conference were as follows:—
1. That common shelters which are not subject to the
law relating to common lodging-houses should be made subject
to such law.
2. That there should be power to the local authority to
require medical examination of all persons entering common
lodging-houses and casual wards, and that each inmate of a
common lodging-house or casual ward should on admission
have a bath of fresh water.
3. That the local authority should have power to order
the keeper of a common lodging-house in which there has
been infectious disease, to refuse fresh admissions for such
time as may be required by the authority.
4. That the local authority should be empowered to
require the temporary closing of any common lodging-house
in which infectious disease has occurred.
5. That the local sanitary authorities should have power
to require the detention of any inmate of a common lodginghouse
or casual ward who may reasonab'y be suspected of
being liable to convey infectious disease.
6. That means should be provided for the detention and
isolation of any vagrant found wandering in a public place,
if reasonably suspected of being liable to convey infectious
disease.
7. That the local authority should have full power to
require the disinfection of the person and clothes of any
person in a common lodging-house or casual ward, whether
infected or exposed to infection.