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The Medical Attendant should, in every case of infectious disease,
be required to notify to the occupier of a house, that he must
immediately (say within 24 hours) give notice to the Sanitary
Authority of the existence of such disease.
It is certain that diseases of an infectious character may be
arrested and prevented from spreading by adopting proper precautions,
but, in order to accomplish this, and to enable the Medical
Officer of Health to put in operation the measures which sanitary
science has discovered, it is of the utmost importance that he should
be informed of their existence at the first onset.
Of course there are certain details which would necessarily
follow in the operation of this enactment, such as penalties for
concealing the existence of infectious diseases, the means to be
provided by sanitary authorities for the removal of patients, and
other matters of minor importance.
I have appended a table of Inspections and Sanitary Work done
in the District, whereby it will be seen your Inspector of Nuisances
has displayed his usual intelligence and activity.
I remain, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
HOBERT BIANCHI.
25, Stamford Street,
June, 1877.