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quate for such a district as Hackney, and it is to be
hoped that a large one will be provided by this Board
before long.
The 24th section, which enacts, that it shall be
lawful for the Board to provide and maintain a
carriage, suitable for the conveyance of persons suffering
from any contagious or infectious disorder, has
been partly provided for by the cab which is kept at
the workhouse, and was used last year for the conveyance
of cholera patients. This cab is also used by the
authorities of the German Hospital, whenever they have
to remove a case of small-pox to the Small-Pox Hospital,
but it is not such a conveyance as will enable the
patients to be in a recumbent position when removed.
I have thus prominently brought before the Board,
the provisions of these two sections, as they are the
only ones which have not been energetically carried out.
As regards the 25th section—which prohibits persons
suffering from any dangerous infectious disorder using a
public conveyance, without previously notifying to the
owner or driver thereof, that he is so suffering,—handbills,
containing the clause at length, have been printed
and distributed throughout the district. A similar
course has been taken as regards the 38th clause,
which prohibits any person suffering from any dangerous
infectious disorder, from wilfully exposing himself
in any street, public place, or conveyance; or any