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the Sanitary authorities, the existence of these diseases. During the
last twelve months the Society of Medical Officers of Health, many
of the Vestries, and the Asylums Board, have memorialized the Local
Government Board, with a view of getting powers for notification of
infectious diseases, with the result that the Board have addressed a
communication to the Sanitary authorities of the towns of Great
Britain, (some fifty-six in number,) where compulsory notification is
in force, in order to obtain information on the working of the system ;
and as a result, the information is stated to be of a most satisfactory
character, so that I think we may hope for something definite arising
out of it, to enable the various Sanitary authorities, to deal more
nromntlv with cases of infectious disease. In Mile End the voluntary.
system of notification from medical men and the various Institutions
continues to work very well, with the result that during the past
twelve months, 133 cases have been notified to us, 59 of which were
sent by medical men.

ASYLUMS BOARD HOSPITALS.
The preceding figures only give the mortality from the various
epidemic diseases. In the absence of notification of all cases of the
chief epidemic diseases, which cannot be obtained without compulsory
powers, the following table of patients admitted in the Asylums Boad
Hospitals during the past year, gives the only further available indication
of the number of cases of infectious disease, in this district,
and in the metropolis generally.