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The Board have therefore resolved to present a Memorial to
the Local Government Board as follows:
"To the Honorable the Local Government Board.
The humble Memorial of the Board of Works for the Saint
Saviour's District, under their Common Seal,
Sheweth as follows:—
Your Memorialists are the Sanitary Authorities for the District of
St. Saviour, Southwark, comprising the Parishes of St. Saviour and
Christchurch, and containing a population at the last census of 28,622
persons.
During the year 1887 the District of your Memorialists, in common
with the rest of the Metropolis, suffered from an epidemic of zymotic
diseases, and the attention of your Memorialists has been directed to
the unduly large proportion of deaths resulting from measles.
From statistic which have been prepared by the Medical Officer of
Health and submitted to your Memorialists, it appears that during
the year 1887, 12,027 deaths were referred to the principal zymotic
diseases in London; of these 3.762 resulted from diarrhoea, 2,928 from
whooping cough, 2,893 from measles, 1,431 from scarlet fever, 951 from
diphtheria, 653 from different forms of fever and 9 from small pox.
Your Memorialists are advised that the high rate of mortality
referred to is largely due to the fact that cases of measles and of
diphtheria are not admitted into the hospitals of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board, it Wing impossible in most instances to isolate such
canes in the homes of the poor.
Your Memorialists consider it to be most desirable in the interests
of the health of the public at large that cases of measles and of
diphtheria should be received into the hospitals aforesaid, in like
manner and under the same restrictions as in the case of fever, small
pox, and other forms of zymotic disease, and that the Medical Officer
of Health having charges of the various districts in the Metropolis,
should have power to send such cases to the hospitals.
Your Memorialists therefore humbly pray that your Honorable
Board will be pleased to promote a Bill in Parliament
in order to give effect to the above suggestions.
And your Memorialists will ever pray, &c.
The Board regret to have lost by death the services of
Mr. Henry Layman; and also, in consequence of the great
misfortune of losing his sight, of Mr. W .S. Josolyne, the
Chairman of the Sewers Committee, who resigned in March
last. In both cases the Board passed resolutions expressive
of its deep condolence and sympathy.
Board Room, w, h. ATKINS.
Emerson Street, Bankside, S.E.
24th June, 1888.