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The Bestrg of the
Parish of St.. Marg Abbotts, Kensington.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Attention is requested to the following suggestions
drawn up with the view of preventing the spread of infectious
diseases.
A sick person who cannot he treated at home without
risk of infecting others, should be removed to hospital :
this can usually be done free of expense. For further information
apply at the offices of the Sanitary Department, at the
Town Hall.
When a sick person is without proper lodging or
accommodation, any Justice may, by order, on a certificate
signed by a medical practitioner, direct his removal to
hospital.
If the sick person be kept at home, no visitor should
be allowed to enter the infected room; the visitor may
escape infection and yet be the means of carrying infection
to others.
Children living in an infected house should not go to
school, or visit other houses, until a medical man has
certified that they may do so without risk of spreading
disease.
Laundresses should not carry on business in an infected
house, and should not wash infected articles until after
they have been properly disinfected.
MEDICAL MEN, CLERGYMEN, DISTRICT VISITORS,
SCHOOL-OFFICERS, and others, are earnestly requested to
report cases of infectious disease to the Medical Officer of
Health.