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Typhoid, Enteric, Relapsing, Continued and Puerperal, are bound tofl
be notified to the Medical Officer of Health by the medical practitioner
in attendance, or a relative of the patient, and the Medical i
Officer of Health on the receipt of the certificate is compelled, \
within twelve hours, to send a copy of it to the clerk to the >
Managers of the Metropolitan Asylum Distiict. In pieparing for
the administration of this Act, hand bills were distributed to the i
house-holders and notices were posted in prominent parts of the a
parish drawing the attention of the inhabitants to the measure.
Also a circular notice was sent round to each medical practitioner
resident in the district calling attention to the requirements of the
Act, with a copy of memorandum of the Local Government Board,.
and a blank book of certificates for the notification of cases of
disease coming under this Act.
At page 101 of this report will be found a copy of the form of
certificate.
From the time this Act came into force to the end of the year
(two months) 15 cases have been notified to me.
They are as follows :—
9 Typhoid Fever .. .. 5 of these cases were patients in the
Charing Cross Hospital and did
not belong to the parish.
4 Diphtheria .. .. 2 of these cases were patients in the
Charing Cross Hospital and did
not belong to the parish.
1 Erysipelas.
1 Membranous Croup.
Sanitary Work.
In the year 1889, notices to the number of 118 were served
upon ihe owners or occupiers of property, also numerous verbal
k commendations to remedy sanitary defects, and 16 notices were
Su ( <' 'Houses eloped as insanitary—Four houses were closed in St.
■ artin's Street as being unfit for human habitation. A notice had
served upon the owner to put the drains into a proper state,
put the houses generally into a habitable condition, no