§ MR. STEPHENS (Middlesex, Hornsey)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether he is aware of the sanitary dangers arising through the transport of persons suffering from infectious disease, beyond the area of the Local Authority to which they belong into the district of another Local Authority; whether, in the case of hospitals so established at considerable distance from the homes of the infectious sick, he has power to prevent the use of public conveyances by the persons, medical or otherwise, in attendance during their journeyings to and from 915 such hospitals; and whether, if he has such power, he will consent to use it?
§ MR. H. H. FOWLERDue care should, of course, be taken in the transport of persons suffering from infectious disease, in whatever district they may be. I have no authority under which I could prohibit the use of public conveyances by persons who are employed in an infectious hospital; but the managers of such an institution can make stringent regulations with a view to such precautions being taken by persons in attendance on patients before leaving the hospital as will prevent their being a source of danger to others, and such regulations have, I believe, been made by the managers of the Metropolitan Asylum District.