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Nuisance Complained of by Several Inhabitants in the Vicinity
of a Small Factory in which Foreign Cheese and Foreign
Butter are Manufactured.
Mr. Battram reports that these articles are manufactured from
sour milk; and when the refuse is emptied from the churns the smell
is very offensive, and the drains become choked. The factory is small
and in a very confined neighbourhood, and is unfitted for the purpose
for which it is used. The nuisance is abated.
Notification of Infectious Disease.
The following case shows the importance of notifying to the
Sanitary Officers, at an early date, the existence of infectious
disease: —
On the 27th July last, information of the death of a child, aged
two years, from scarlet-fever, at 23, Buck's Row, Whitechapel, was
received at the Office from the Local Registrar.
Upon visiting the house the same day, Mr. Wrack, the Sanitary
Inspector, was informed that there had been four other children ill of
the same disease, but who were then convalescent; and there were
two other children of the family ill with the same disease. Mr. Wrack '
advised the mother to let these children be removed to the hospital,
to which she consented. The Relieving Officer was at once communicated
with, and the children were removed the same day. The
bedding and rooms occupied by the sick children were disinfected
immediately after their removal to the hospital.
The mother informed the Inspector that the medical gentleman
who had been attending the children had neither advised, nor
suggested, their removal to a hospital.
In many cases it is only when a death occurs that the Sanitary
Officers obtain information of the existence of an epidemic disease ;
so that before the Sanitary Officers have intimation of such,
much mischief has been occasioned by the disease having spread
to several families in the vicinity; whereas, if information had
been given to the Health Officers many cases of infectious
disease would probably have been prevented, and much misery
saved. It is now full time that it should be made compulsory
on some person having the charge of a patient suffering from an
infectious disease, to send notice of the same to the Local Board, and
that the Sanitary Officers should be required to immediately attend
to the same. In Edinburgh, Nottingham, and other towns, the
authorities have procured the passing of Local Acts rendering the
notification of infectious disease compulsory upon the medical
attendant, or upon the householder, or upon both, and excellent