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dum is substantially the same as that sent out in July, 1888.
In view of all eventualities the Board were desirous that
your Vestry's attention should be again called to the question
of taking such measures of precaution as the sanitary condition
of the parish might demand. I may mention that in
a special report, (No. 9, July 25), on "Precautions against
Cholera," I dealt with the subject in 1883, and pointed out
what I conceived to be the relative duties devolving upon
the central authority, (Local Government Board), the local
authority, (your Vestry), the representatives of the law, (the
Justices), and the people themselves, in the dreaded emergency.
In concluding that report I said, and I now repeat,
that individual householders might render invaluable service
by reporting to your Vestry whatever nuisances may come
to their knowledge, or under their observation, and not less
by carrying into effect, each in his own house and family,
the advice submitted to each one in Papers respectively
entitled—(a) Suggestions for Preventing the spread of Infectious
Diseases; (b) General Sanitary Notice, and (c) Precautions
against Cholera.
I have already, (at page 44), described the arrangements
the Asylums Board made in 1883, for providing hospital accommodation
for cases of Cholera in all parts of the metropolis,
should the disease unhappily come amongst us. A conference
between the Medical Officers of Health and Representatives
of the General Purposes Committee of the Board,
proposed by the Committee, was held July 17," with a view
to the consideration of several points which arise in connection
with the carryingout of the Diseases Prevention (Metropolis)
Act, 1883, and upon which unity and uniformity of
action seem to be advisable."]
COMPULSORY NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS
DISEASES.
In several of my Annual Reports I have referred to the
need of legislation to secure immediate information to