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health of the district or some other registered medical
practitioner, as testified by a certificate signed by him;
or
(b) fails to give the owner of the house, or the
part of the house, notice of the previous existence of
the disease: or
(c) on being questioned by the owner as to whether
within the preceding six weeks there has been therein
any person suffering from any notifiable disease, makes
a false answer to such question,
he shall be liable, in the case of an offence under
paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of this subsection, to
a fine not exceeding twenty pounds and, in the case
of an offence under paragraph (c) to a fine not
exceeding twenty pounds or to imprisonment for a
term not exceeding one month.
—(2) The local authority shall give notice of the
provisions of this section to the occupier and also to
the owner of any house in which they are aware that
there is a person suffering from a notifiable disease.”
Appropriate investigation is carried out concerning all cases
notified; and in order to facilitate the enquiries which are made
by the District Inspectors, a number of cards have been
prepared detailing relevant questions according to the particular
diseases notified.
Weekly visits are paid by the Sanitary Inspectors, upon
these cases treated at home, aiming at impressing the importance
of continued appropriate isolation. Leaflets have been
prepared dealing with scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhoid and
enteric fever, dysentery, whooping cough, mumps, measles,
chicken-pox and influenza. These are distributed at the clinics,
and left at the homes by the District Inspectors, and by the
Health Visitors in their domiciliary visitation.
With regard to che incidence of the infectious diseases,
three maps are kept up-to-date from day-to-day. The first map
is an ordinary street map of Wembley, and on it are pinned
flags of different colours, each colour meaning a different
disease, showing the actual location of an infectious disease as
it occurs. On another diagram are similarly pinned all the
infectious diseases according to the schools which the children
victims attend, while on a third diagram the diseases are pinned
according to the milk supply of the family.
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