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Attention is particularly directed to the following provisions of the Sanitary
Laws, in reference to "Infectious Disorders ":—
1.—The owner or occupier may be required to cleanse and disinfect any house or
room, or the cabin or berth of any ship or vessel, and the articles contained in it
likely to retain infection—where infectious disease has existed—under a penalty not
exceeding 10s. a day for neglect.
2.—If any person, suffering from any dangerous infectious disorder, shall enter
a cab or other public conveyance, without informing the driver thereof that he is so
suffering, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £5.
3.—Any person suffering from any dangerous infectious disorder—such as fever,
scarlet-fever, small-pox, &c., who exposes himself in any street, school, church,
chapel, theatre, or other public place; or in any omnibus or other public conveyance;
and any person in charge of one so suffering, who so exposes the sufferer, shall be
liable to a penalty not exceeding £5.
4.—Any person who, without previous disinfection, gives, lends, sells, or moves
to another place, or exposes any bedding, clothing, rags, or other things which have
been exposed to infection, becomes liable to a penalty not exceeding £5.
5.—Any person who lets a house, room, or part of a house, in which there has
been infectious disease, without having such house or room, and all articles therein
liable to infection, disinfected to the satisfaction of a qualified medical practitioner,
is liable to a penalty not exceeding £20. This applies to public-houses, hotels, and
lodging-houses.
6.—If any person who lets, or shows for hire, any house or part of a house,
makes any false statement as to the fact of there being then in such house, or having
within six weeks previously been therein, any person suffering from an infectious
disease, such person answering falsely shall be liable to imprisonment, with or without
hard labour, or to a penalty not exceeding £20.
J. NORTHCOTE VINEN, M. D.,
St. John's, Southwark,
W. H. CORFIELD, M.D., (Oxon.,)
10, Bolton Row, Mayfair.
Hon. Secs.
March, 1875.
Water Supply.
Major Bolton, in his remarks on the water supply of the metropolis,
dated 9th April, 1875, says, "That the New River Company have in a number
of cases afforded constant supply, by means of stand-pipes, to a large
number of the houses of the poor situated in courts within the city bounds,
and sanction has recently been obtained from the authorities for a further
extension of these benefits to a considerable number of courts and alleys."
" The East London Company have completed the extension of the constant
system of supply in a considerable part of their district which is densely
populated, and are bringing their whole district, section by section, underconstant
supply." From the above quotations from Major Bolton's report it