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tion, and the Managers have not, so far as I am aware, received
a reply to their letter on the subject sent to the Board on
the 25th April, 1888.
(3.) Diphtheria.—"The question of the admission to the
hospitals of patients suffering from this disease has now been
tentatively dealt with by the Local Government Board"
(vide p. 38).
(4.) Compulsory Notification of Infectious Diseases.—A
communication on this subject, which has been before your
Vestry frequently, was addressed by the Managers to the Local
Government Board (5th November, 1887), in favour of the
extension of the system to the Metropolis. The Board promised
that the subject should receive their attention, but nothing has
been done; save that, as explained elsewhere (page 78), the
Board made an inquiry, at the end of 1887, into the working of
the system in the towns where it is in force, in the form of
queries addressed to the respective sanitary authorities.
(5.) Compulsory removal of the Infectious Sick to Hospital
when without proper lodging or accommodation.—Compulsory
removal can be effected (on medical certificate and Justice's
order) only when the Hospital is within the district of a
Nuisance Authority. The suggestion had been made that the
Hospitals of the Asylums Board should be declared to be
"within a convenient distance" of the various districts of the
Sanitary Authorities, for the purposes of the removal of the sick
under Section 26 of the Sanitary Act, 1886. The Managers
stated (28th January, 1888) that they were prepared to carry
out any instructions which the Local Government Board might
issue in reference to the section, should the Board see fit to make
the said section operative in the Metropolis. Nothing has yet
been done.
(6.) Compulsory Purchase of Land. —This subject has been
referred to (page 59) in connection with an application of the
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