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of the following resolutions, upon the recommendation of the
Works, Sanitary and General Purposes Committee, to which
my report, submitted to your Vestry on September 21st, had
been referred, viz.:—
"That Compulsory Notification of Infectious Disease, enforced by legislative
enactment, would be conducive to the interests of the public health,
tending as it would to check and prevent the spread of infectious disease, by
promoting isolation in the homes of the sick, and removal of the sick to hospital,
when necessary, and also by securing the opportunity for speedy disinfection
of infected houses, clothing, bedding, etc.
"That the President of the Local Government Board be asked to bring
in a Bill, General or Local (Metropolitan), to provide for Compulsory Notification
of Infectious Disease.
"That the Metropolitan Asylums Board and the several Vestries and
District Boards be invited to co-operate with the Vestry by endorsing its
application to the Local Government Board."
The matter was remitted to the Committee to carry out
the resolutions, and at the request of your Vestry I prepared,
for the information of the Managers of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board, and the several Vestries and District Boards of
Works, a Memorandum setting out the reasons for Compulsory
Notification, the views of sanitary experts, and the proceedings
of the Conference held at the Town Hall in 1881,
when a Resolution affirming the desirability of Compulsory
Notification was unanimously adopted.
A copy of the Memorandum was sent (in October) to
each of the Managers of the Asylums Board, and to every
member of a Vestry or a District Board of Works, and a
communication moreover was addressed to the Asylums Board
and to the several Vestries and District Boards of Works (and
also to the Boards of Guardians), inviting those bodies to
''Take into consideration the (above cited) Resolution of the Conference
of 1881, and to endorse the application to the President of the Local Government
Board to bring in a Bill, General or Local (Metropolitan), to provide for
Compalsory Notification, which the Vestry propose to make."