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their doing so. Attention should also be called to the importance of
avoiding contact with persons suffering from the disease, or coming into
proximily to them, and of avoiding contact with any person or thing which
may have become infected. It is important to notice that, even where
vaccination has been neglected, there is great readiness to submit to it in
the presence of a threatened epidemic; a large number of vaccinations are
then obtained willingly and without opposition. Whenever a sanitary
authority has received notification of a case of Small Pox, we think the fact
should be at once communicated to the Vaccination Authority of the
district, in which the case of the disease has occurred."
(535) "We desire to call attention again to the recommendation, which
we made in our fifth interim report, that persons committed to prison by
reason of the non.payment of penalties imposed under the vaccination laws
should no longer be treated as criminals. We stated in that report our
reasons for this recommendation, to which we still adhere."
NEW RIVER WATER COMPANY.
Constant Supply.
In my report for last year, I quoted the opinion of a responsible
officer of the London County Council that the "constant supply" of
water would be furnished to the whole of the houses supplied by this
Company during the year 1896.
At the beginning of this year I made enquiries of the Secretary
to the Company as to the progress which had been made in the
extension of the constant service, and received the following letter
in reply to my enquiries.
New River Office, E.C.
7th January, 1897.
Dear Sir,—In answer to the enquiry contained in your letter of the 29th
ult., I beg to inform you that all the houses in the Parish of Hackney
supplied by this Company are receiving the constant supply, except a few
the west side of Kingsland High Street which are now being dealt with, and
will be turned on constant as soon as possible.
Yours faithfully,
ERNEST COLLINS.