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CLINICAL INSTRUCTION.
The Managers, desirous of making their hospitals available for
clinical instruction, upon conditions embodied in a report dated
February, 1886, and as contemplated by Section 29 of the
Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867, have applied to the Local
Government Board for the necessary order of authorisation. It
is proposed to admit registered medical men as clinical assistants,
on moderate terms of payment for board, the period of residence
being limited to three months. The proposed arrangement is a
very desirable one, seeing how greatly the opportunities of medical
students for studying infectious diseases have been restricted, and
even annihilated as regards small-pox, scarlet fever, etc., by exclusion
from general hospitals, of sufferers from these diseases.
COMPULSORY NOTIFICATION OF
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
In several of my Annual Reports reference has been made to
the need of legislation to secure immediate information to Sanitary
Authorities of the occurrence of iUness from some of the more
dangerous infectious diseases, and in the report for 1880 (page
44), I gave a full account of the steps that had been taken, by means
of legislation, in the shape of " Local Acts," to provide for
notification in certain provincial towns and boroughs. The
subject was continued in my Report for 1881 (page 40), and I
stated that, as the desirability for extension of such legislation
in the shape of a Public Act was generally acknowledged, it only
remained for the Government to introduce a measure for the
purpose of securing notification. In the Session of 1882, several
Private Bills providing for " Police or Sanitary Regulations " were
introduced, at the instance of provincial Corporations, and referred
to a Select Committee, of which Mr. Sclater-Booth, an ex-President
of the Local Government Board, was Chairman. In their Report
on the " Sanitary Regulations" the Committee stated, with