HH62/1/DUMFRI/45

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APPENDIX.

LETTER ON HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION.

TO JOHN H. DICKSON, ESQ.,
Chairman of the Public Health Committee of the
County Council of Dumfriesshire.
SIR,
In accordance with your request, I
have the honour to submit for the information of the Conference
of Representatives of the Public Health Committee of the County
Council and of the District Committees of the County the following
statement, giving in general terms an outline of the provisions
that appear to me desirable in order to prevent the spread of
Infectious or Contagious Diseases in the County:
It has been said, and with much truth, that no Sanitary
Authority can be regarded as fulfilling its duty in the prevention
of such diseases unless it has provided for (1) Compulsory Notifi-
cation, (2) Isolation Hospitals, (3) Disinfection.
With the exception of Moffat, the District Committees have
adopted the Infectious Diseases (Notification) Act, and have
therby provided for the first requirement. Annan and Lockerbie
Districts have added Measles to the list of Diseases scheduled in
the Act for notification, and I wish to take the opportunity now
afforded me of suggesting to the other Districts that they might
do likewise. Apart from other considerations, it will promote
that uniformity in regard to the working of the Public Health
Acts which this Conference is seeking to secure, and would get rid
of much of the confusion that has already resulted from Measles
being notifiable in one district but not in another. Some of the
medical practitioners do not seem to have made themselves
acquainted with the geographical limits of the various Districts.
It thus not unfrequently happens that notifications of Measles come
from Districts where they are unauthorised, while it is not impro-
bable that omissions will occur in Districts where cases ought to be
duly notified.