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with the fact that the Managers of the Asylums' Board are utilizing
any accommodation that may be obtained in the General Hospitals
and Infirmaries for the first cases of Cholera which may appear, and
that their Hospital accommodation will probably be limited to this,
it will devolve upon the Poplar Board to provide hospital accommodation
in the event of a visitation of Cholera to this district; but in
any case it is for this Board to provide places of refuge for persons
not actually sick but whom it might be right to keep under observation,
or to accommodate while their home was either under disinfection
or was devoted to a sick person who could not properly be removed.
The London Hospital is at too great a distance for this district to
remove patients thereto, and at the present time the Poplar Hospital
is closed, therefore, the Poplar District must rely on its own resources.
"It is to be observed that the amount expended by any local
authority in providing any building for use as a hospital, or as a
place of refuge, under regulations issued by the Local Government
Board will, to such extent as may be determined by that Board,
together with two-thirds of the salaries or remuneration of any officers
or servants employed in any such building, be repaid to them from
the Metropolitan Common Poor Fund, and will consequently be a
charge on the whole Metropolis.
"I have been in communication, and have had interviews,
respecting land at Millwall, Cottage Row, and the region known as
the Copperas land, but it appears to me that there is a difficulty in
pursuing negotiations because the land is not asked for definitely. I have
interviewed the manager of the East and West India Dock Company,
and he offers a site south of the South Dock Basin, near Judkin
Street, which the Directors might be willing to let at a rental. I have
received a letter from the manager of the Millwall Dock Company,
saying that the Company have no land to let.
"I called upon Mr. Hooper, of Millwall, who writes saying that
his Principal would not object to endeavour to find a site or sites,
and in his letter he suggests several on the Island, and should the