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7. Diarrhœa (decennial average 30.3).—The 30 deaths
were about the average.
As usual, the greatest fatality was among infants, 21 of
whom died under 1 year of age.
The disease was most prevalent during July, when 13 of
the total deaths occurred.
Isolation of Infectious Disorders.
The Poor Law Act, 1889, 52 & 53 Vict., cap. 56, sec. 3:
(1) Enables the Managers of the Metropolitan Asylum
District, subject to such regulations and restrictions as the
Local Government Board from time to time make, to
admit, any person who is not a pauper and is reasonably
believed to be suffering from fever or small-pox, or diphtheria,
into an asylum provided by the managers.
(2) The expenses incurred by the Asylum managers for
the maintenance of any such person shall be paid by the
guardians of the Union from which he is received, and
those guardians may recover the amount of those expenses
as a simple contract debt from the said person, or from any
person liable by law to maintain him.
(3) The said expenses, so far as the same are not so recovered
by the guardians, shall be repaid to them out of the
Metropolitan Common Poor Fund.
(4) After the date of an order of the Local Government
Board, authorizing the Asylum managers to receive diphtheria
patients into their hospitals, sub-section 2 of section
sixty-nine of the Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867, shall apply as
if diphtheria were therein mentioned, as well as fever and
small-pox.
(6) The Asylum managers may allow their carriages to be
used for the conveyance of any persons suffering from any
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