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Compulsory Notification of Infectious Disease.—The
Vestry received a letter, dated 20th
October, from the Vestry of Kensington, expressing
the opinion that compulsory notification of infectious
disease enforced by legislative enactment,
would be conducive to the interests of the public
health, tending to check and prevent the spread
of infectious disease by promoting isoaltion in
the homes of the sick, and removal of the sick
to hospital when necessary, and also by securing
the opportunity for speedy disinfection of infected
homes, clothes, bedding, &c. ; and stating that
they have requested the President of the Local
Government Board to bring in a Bill for the purpose,
and calling attention to the result of the
Conference of the several Vestries and District
Boards of the Metropolis, held at their Town Hall,
in March, 1881, when a similar resolution was
passed; also suggesting that the Vestry should
pass a resolution re-affirming the necessity for compulsory
notification and forward same to the Local
Government Board, also forwarding copy Memorandum
of their Medical Officer of Health on the
subject.
They also received a letter, dated 29th October,
from Messrs. Shirley Murphy and C. E. Saunders,
Honorary Secretaries of the Society of Medical
Officers of Health reporting that the Society has
adopted similar resolutions to those of the Kensington
Vestry, and urging the Vestry to support same
by addressing the Local Government Board
thereon.
They also received a letter, dated 29th October,
from the Metropolitan Asylums Board, forwarding
a copy of a letter they have addressed to the Local
Government Board in favour of such compulsory
notification.