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Sanitarians, and to ensure their success (in the way of treatment
and cure), such Sanatoria should be established in conjunction
with farm colonies, to which the patients, when cured or
improved, could be sent, instead of being sent back to their
crowded and unsatisfactory homes.
The Metropolitan Asylums Board, after carefully considering
the subject, decided on November 28th, 1903, that "the question
of the proposed establishment of Sanatoria for Consumptive
patients is one of such vital and far-reaching importance to the
community at large, and the proposal one, which, if adopted by
the Managers, would entail so considerable an extension of their
duties and responsibilities, and so large an increase in their
expenditure, as to call for some authoritative expression of
opinion by the Local Government Board, before the Managers
are asked to take any definite action in the matter, or to make
any further inquiries in regard thereto."
The Lambeth Council, in view of this decision by the Metropolitan
Asylums Board, communicated with the Local Government
Board, asking the Board to hold an enquiry into the whole
question of the provision of Sanatoria for the use of London Consumptives
by the Metropolitan Asylums Board, or by some other
Body. The need for Sanatoria, none will gainsay, and the good
effects that would accrue from the taking away, at least temporarily,
from crowded localities and houses, of cases of Consumption,
which, at present, are a considerable danger to others,
will be readily admitted by all. It is to be hoped that some
practical steps will be taken at an early date.
A Bye-law prohibiting spitting on the floor, side or wall of any
public carriage, or of any public hall, public waiting room, or
place of public entertainment (whether admission thereto be
obtained upon payment or not), has been passed during 1903
(May 12th) by the London County Council, in pursuance of the
provisions of Section 23 of the Municipal Corporation Act 1882
and Section 16 of the Local Government Act 1888. The Bye-law
applies to the County of London, and includes the Borough of