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The School Board for London, recognizing the question as
one deeply affecting the interests committed to their charge,
responded to my request for their support by addressing to the
Local Government Board a communication endorsing your
Vestry's application for the introduction of a Bill in the
Autumn Session.
The Society of Medical Officers of Health, moreover, at
their meeting in October, unanimously passed resolutions on the
subject, moved by myself, as follows:—
"1. That in the opinion of this Society it is expedient that the
Managers of the Metropolitan Asylums District should be empowered to
admit into their Infectious Hospitals persons suffering from Diphtheria
or any other ' dangerous infectious disorder within the meaning of the
expression as used in the Sanitary Act, 1866, and in Section 15 of the
Poor Law Act, 1879.
" 2. That this Society, noting with satisfaction the expressed willingness
of the Managers to admit cases of Diphtheria, and having regard to
the spread of Diphtheria in certain portions of the Metropolis at the
present time, request the Local Government Board to re-consider whether
it may not be in their power to issue an Order forthwith, to enable the
Managers to admit persons suffering from that disease.
" 3. That in the event of the Local Government Board being still of
opinion that they have no power to issue such an Order, this Society
would respectfully request the President of the Board to bring in a Bill
in the Autumn Session of Parliament, to confer power upon the Board to
make an Order to enable the Managers to admit persons suffering from
any ' dangerous infectious disorder.'
" i. That a copy of the foregoing Resolutions be forwarded to the
Local Government Board, to the Asylums Board, and to the several
Vestries and District Boards of Works, and that the said Vestries, &c.,be
invited, in the interests of public health, to support the action of the
Asylums Board in this matter, and to endorse the request of the Society
as set out in the preceding resolution."
The Asylums Board directed the above resolutions to be
entered on the minutes.