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that unless such conditions exist as render it desirable to disinfect the rooms, it need
not be done as a rule in cases of Erysipelas. This is a disease, which, in my opinion,
might well be removed from the list of diseases included in the Notification Act; the
dangei to lying-in women, to vaccinated children, and to persons requiring surgical
operations is one which can be usually met by the Medical Practitioner with ordinary
precautions.
REMOVAL OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Recently notification was received that a child was suffering from Scarlet Fever in
a house in this Parish. On the house being visited by the Sanitary Inspector he was
informed by the father, that on being told the nature of the complaint, he had carried
the child to another house in an adjoining parish As it is contrary to Law for a person
so suffering to be exposed in the streets, and calculated to spread the disease, a summons
against the man was applied for, but it was refused by the Magistrate on the ground
that no witness was present at the time the application was made, who had seen the
child being removed, and could speak from observation to the method employed. It
does not appear to be generally known, even by medical men, that the Metropolitan
Asylums Board, besides taking persons to their hospitals, are at all times ready to
convey persons suffering from any one of the following diseases, viz. :—Small Pox,
Cholera, Diphtheria, Measles, Relapsing, Continued and Puerperal Fevers, Erysipelas,
Scarlatina, Typhus, and Typhoid Fevers, to any place to which they may wish to be
removed for the sum of 5/-, if within the Metropolitan Area, on application to the office,
or to one of the ambulance stations, the one for this district being situate at Brooksby's
Walk, Homerton, N.E.
DISINFECTION.