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in Dod-street a few years since. At the present time, cases that you
are called upon to deal with are sent to the Smallpox Hospital,
at Highgate, and a fee of four guineas paid with each. The whole
matter requires grave and earnest consideration at the hands of the
legislature and the local authorities. The present system is far from
being a satisfactory one, in proof of which, I may state, that in April
the Smallpox Hospital at Highgate, was full.
In March, a conference of delegates from the Vestries and
District Boards of London, was held at the Kensington Vestry
Hall on the subject of the Compulsory Notification of infectious
diseases; the object of the conference was to obtain (1) the
compulsory disclosure to nuisance authorities of all cases of such
dangerous infectious diseases as Smallpox, Scarlet Fever, &c. ; (2)
an amendment of sec. 26 of Sanitary Act, 1866, so as to provide
increased facilities for the removal to Hospitals of persons suffering
from dangerous infectious diseases, and being without proper lodging
and accomodation, enabling them to be properly isolated at home ;
and lastly, an enactment for depauperising the relief afforded by
way of maintenance, medical treatment, &c. to persons removed for
the purpose of isolation to infectious disease hospitals, and for
making the support of all such hospitals in the Metropolis, a charge
on the Metropolitan common poor fund. In company with the
delegates from your Board I attended this Conference, when
resolutions in favour of the above objects were passed, and it was