HH62/2/LANARK/37

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TABLE IV. - Weekly Return of "Notifications"
in the Upper Ward from 13th July to 31st
December, 1891.

[Table inserted]

Those marked with an asterisk (*) are cases not notified by medical
practitioners. Two were certified by County Medical Officer, the others by
householders.

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The only hospital in which the District Committee have
an interest is that at Lanark, which is a joint-hospital
intended originally for the Parish of Lanark and the Burgh
of Lanark, and contains a total of 8 beds, of which none
are reserved exclusively for either the burgh or the land-
ward portion of the parish. As the hospital accommodation
for a population of 40,000 ought to be something like 40
beds, it is obvious that the Upper Ward is deficient in the
means of isolating its infected sick. To this the District
Committee are alive, and I have been instructed to prepare
a report on the whole subject, which will shortly be presented.
Allied to the subject of hospital accommodation is that
of disinfection of clothing, and this also will be considered
in the hospital report. At present there are no special
means for the proper disinfection of clothing and other
articles from infected houses in the Upper Ward.

Dairies, Cowsheds, and Milk-shops. - A considerable
number of the inhabitants of this portion of the county are
interested in dairy farming, and for them the subject of
Dairies and Cowsheds Regulations possesses a special
interest. I submitted to the District Committee draft
regulations, which were remitted to a sub-committee to
consider and report upon.*

Food and Drugs. - The Sale of Food and Drugs Acts,
1875 and 1879, have also been brought before the Com-
mittee, and the sanitary officials, with the inspectors of
Weights and Measures, have been appointed officers under
the Acts, with the view of having them put into immediate
force. Instructions to the various officers are being printed.

Water Supply and Drainage. - The question of water
supply in the Upper Ward does not assume the same acute
form that it does in the Middle and Lower Wards of the
county. A large part of the district consists of hilly land

* Since confirmed by District Committee of Upper Ward.