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prepared to give favourable consideration to any application
which might be made to add Diarrhoea to the list of notifiable
diseases in the District under the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891. The Board immediately acted upon this suggestion,
and passed a Resolution, which was ultimately confirmed,
applying the provisions of the Public Health (London) Act,
1891, with reference to the notification of Infectious Diseases,
to Diarrhoea until the 29th September, 1894. Fortunately
the necessity for a further extension of this resolution has
not arisen, but during the period that it was in force no less
than ninety-eight cases were notified.
The Analyst's report, which will be found on page 26,
records the number of samples submitted for analysis under
the Sale of Foods and Drugs Act and the Margarine Act.
A total of 348 samples were purchased and analysed, of
these 40 were adulterated, but in 21 cases the adulteration
was not sufficient to justify any proceedings being taken; in
the other cases prosecutions ensued, and fines and costs
amounting in the whole to £14 12s. Od. were inflicted.
Slaughter Houses and Public Abattoirs.
During the year the question of the desirability of the
abolition of private slaughtering of meat in crowded districts
in the Metropolis was under consideration, and the
views of the various Local Authorities in the Metropolis
were invited, There was, however, such a considerable
divergence of opinion upon the question as to whether
Public Abattoirs should or should not be established, that
the Board finally decided to take no action in the matter.
British Institute of Public Health.
At the invitation of the British Institute of Public
Health the following Members and Officers were appointed