§ Mr. SUTTONasked the President of the Local Government Board whether he will submit a list of instances in which permission has been given to sanitary and other authorities to allow their small-pox hospitals to be used as sanatoria for the treatment of consumption?
§ Mr. ASTORasked the President of the Local Government Board whether any local authorities, and, if so, which, have taken steps to secure the compulsory isolation of tuberculous cases which are in a state of high infectivity; and, if so, whether he will state what action has been taken
§ Mr. BURNSIn the Session of 1911 the Corporation of St. Helens obtained by means of a local Act certain special powers in regard to the compulsory isolation of persons suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis. Similar powers were refused in the case of Sheffield in the Session of 1912, and in the cases of Derby and Southport in the present Session. Similar powers have been obtained in the present Session by Liverpool, East Ham, and Bradford. The medical officer of health of St. Helens considers that the powers have proved useful, but he reports that during 1912 in only one case was it necessary to make an application to the Court for an order authorising compulsory removal.